African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Acanthaster Gervais, 1841

AphiaID

205212 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205212)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Acanthasteridae

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Species Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917
Species Acanthaster mauritiensis de Loriol, 1885
Species Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym according to Verrill (1914))

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Gervais, P. (1841). Astérie. Pp. 461-481 in: "Plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi" (eds) (1840-1841) Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différents êtres de la nature, ...; suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. Supplément. Tome I. viii+527 pp., 20 pls. Ch. Pitoit, Paris., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xJQ5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP11
page(s): 474 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Acanthaster Gervais, 1841. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205212 on 2024-04-24

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Acanthaster Gervais, 1841. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205212 on 2024-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1999-09-04 22:25:11Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-10-01 17:04:30Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-04 06:53:11Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2008-12-07 14:43:37Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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original description Gervais, P. (1841). Astérie. Pp. 461-481 in: "Plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi" (eds) (1840-1841) Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différents êtres de la nature, ...; suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. Supplément. Tome I. viii+527 pp., 20 pls. Ch. Pitoit, Paris., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xJQ5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP11
page(s): 474 [details]

basis of record Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To ITIS