WoRMS taxon details
Stephanasterias albula (Stimpson, 1853)
AphiaID: 123808
AphiaID: 123808
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Stephanasterias (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Stephanasterias Verrill, 1871 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asteracanthion albulus Stimpson, 1853 (synonym) Asteracanthion problema Steenstrup, 1854 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Asteracanthion problema Steenstrup, 1855 (synonym) Asterias albulua Stimpson, 1864 Asterias gracilis Perrier, 1881 (synonym) Asterias problema Lutken, 1872 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Nanaster albulus Perrier, 1894 (synonym) Stephanasterias gracilis (Perrier, 1881) (Synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992).) Stichaster albulus (Stimpson, 1853) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source (from synonym): Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Barents Sea [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Circumboreal [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Colombia [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greenland [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Guyana Basin [details] Kara Sea [details] Kola Bay [details] Murmansk Coast [details] Newfoundland Basin [details] North American Basin [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Spitsbergen [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details] Habitat: bathyal of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123808 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Stephanasterias albula (Stimpson, 1853). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123808 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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