WoRMS taxon details
Asterias forbesi (Desor, 1848)
AphiaID: 158489
AphiaID: 158489
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Asterias Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asteracanthion berylinus A. Agassiz, 1866 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Asteracanthion forbesi Desor, 1848 Asteracanthion lacazei Perrier, 1869 Asteracanthion novaeboracensis Perrier, 1869 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930)) Asterias arenicola Stimpson, 1862 Asterias arenicola var. lacazei Perrier, 1875 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930)) Asterias crassispina H.L. Clark, 1941 (synonym according to Downey in Clark & Downey (1992)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] from synonym: Agassiz, A. (1863). On the embryology of Asteracanthion berylinus Ag. and a species allied to A. rubens M.T. A. pallidus, Ag. Proc. Amer. Acad. April 14, 1-8, with a folding plate [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 | Atlantic [details] Bahamas [details] Canada [details] Cape Frio [details] Cape Hatteras [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Florida [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Guyanas [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Sargasso Sea [details] Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (90 nucleotides; 41 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Gulf of Maine to Texas [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158489 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Asterias forbesi (Desor, 1848). 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=158489 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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