WoRMS taxon details
Leptasterias tenera (Stimpson, 1862)
AphiaID: 158496
AphiaID: 158496
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Leptasterias (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Leptasterias Verrill, 1866 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asteracanthion flaccida A. Agassiz, 1866 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930)) Asterias tenera Stimpson, 1862 | ||||||||||
| 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: Gosner, 1977 [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] 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 | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] Sargasso Sea [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158496 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Leptasterias tenera (Stimpson, 1862). 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=158496 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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