Asteroidea taxon details
original description
Lutken, C. (1869). Uber <i>Choriaster granulatus</i> eine neue Gattung aus der Familie de Asteriden. <em>Catalog Godeffroy Museum, Hamburg (Schmeltz ed.).</em> 4: xxxv. [details]
original description
(of Bothriaster primigenius Döderlein, 1916) Döderlein, L. (1916). Uber die Gattung <i>Oreaster</i> und verwandte. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 40: 409-440., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9759800 page(s): 416 [details]
original description
(of Culcita niassensis Sluiter, 1895) Sluiter, C.P. (1895). Die Asteriden Sammlung des Museums zu Amsterdam. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde uitgeven door het Genootschap Nature Artis Magistra.</em> 17: 51-64., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/547880 page(s): 58 [details]
basis of record
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]
additional source
Lütken, C. (1871). Fortasatte kritiske og beskrivende Bidrag til Kundskab om Sostjernerne (Asteriderne). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening.</em> 1871: 227-304., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35853627 page(s): 243 [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
From other sources
Description Also distributed in East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific (also recorded from the Red Sea), depth range 0-40 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Syntypes (probable) in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) (1 specimen labelled 'Fidschi inseln'). Type locality: Palau and Fiji as 'Pelew Island and Viti Island' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
From editor or global species database
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