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Zoroaster fulgens Thomson, 1873 
AphiaID: 123826

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Zoroasteridae (Family) > Zoroaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Zoroaster Thomson, 1873
Parent Zoroaster Thomson, 1873
Synonymised
taxa
  Prognaster grimaldii Perrier, 1891
Zoroaster ackleyi Perrier, 1880 (Synonym)
Zoroaster bispinosus Koehler, 1909 (lapsus for Z. trispinosus)
Zoroaster diomedeae Verrill, 1884
Zoroaster longicauda Perrier, 1885
Zoroaster trispinosus Koehler, 1895
Sources  original description: Thomson, C.W. (1873). The Depths of the Sea. (Macmillan and Co.: London): 1-527. [details]

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: Howell, K.L., D.W. Pond, D.S.M. Billett & P.A. Tyler. 2003. Feeding ecology of deep-sea seastars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea): A fatty-acid biomarker approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series 255: 193-206. [details]

additional source: Howell, K.L. A.D. Rogers, P.A. Tyler, and D.S.M. Billett. (2004). Reproductive isolation among morphotypes of the Atlantic seastar species Zoroaster fulgens. Marine Biology 144: 977-984. [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]

from synonym: Perrier E. (1885) Premiére note Préliminaire des les Echinodermes, recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annls. Sci. Nat. Zool. 22(8): 1-72.  [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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution Ascension [details]
Canary Basin [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faeroes [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Guyana Basin [details]
Haiti [details]
Iberian Basin [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
Panama [details]
Rockall Trough [details]
St. Helena [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
West European Basin [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123826
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2007-12-18 20:56:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Zoroaster fulgens Thomson, 1873. 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=123826 on 2013-05-22
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