WoRMS taxon details
Brisaster fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844)
AphiaID: 124404
AphiaID: 124404
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Paleopneustina (Suborder) > Schizasteridae (Family) > Brisaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Brisaster Gray, 1855 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brisaster (Schizaster) fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (unaccepted combination) Brissus fragilis Düben & Koren, 1844 (transferred to Brisaster) Periaster fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (transferred to Brisaster) Schizaster (Brisaster) fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (unaccepted combination) Schizaster (Brissus) fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (transferred to Brisaster) Schizaster fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (transferred to Brisaster) Tripylus fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844) (transferred to Brisaster) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 283-285 [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] 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bohuslän [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Davis Strait [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Faroe-Shetland Channel [details] Florida [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norway [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Shetlands [details] South Iceland [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Iceland [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), northern Gaspe Waters, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124404 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Brisaster fragilis (Düben & Koren, 1844). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124404 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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