WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten articulatus (Say, 1825)
AphiaID: 158491
AphiaID: 158491
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Astropecten (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Astropecten Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias aranciaca Gould, 1841 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Asterias articulata Say, 1825 Astropecten buschi Müller & Troschel, 1843 (A variety of A. articulatus (Say, 1825) according to Doderlein (1917)) Astropecten dubius Gray, 1840 (synonym) Astropecten duplicatus Koehler, 1909 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Astropecten articulatus duplicatus Doderlein, 1917 accepted as Astropecten duplicatus Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas [details] Belize (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cape Frio [details] Cape Hatteras [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Dominican Republic [details] Florida [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Guyanas [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Nicaragua (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Sargasso Sea [details] Trinidad and Tobago (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158491 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten articulatus (Say, 1825). 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=158491 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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