WoRMS taxon details
Mithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 178200
AphiaID: 178200
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Mithrodiidae (Family) > Mithrodia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Mithrodia Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias clavigera Lamarck, 1816 Echinaster echinulatus (Muller & Troschel, 1842) (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Heresaster papillosus Michelin, 1844 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Mithrodia echinulatus (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Mithrodia spinulosa Gray, 1840 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Mithrodia victoriae Bell, 1882 (Synonym according to Pope & Rowe (1977)) Ophidiaster echinulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [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] basis of record (from synonym): Australian Faunal Directory, available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/index.html [details] [view taxon] original description (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] source of synonymy (from synonym): Pope, E.C. & F.W.E. Rowe. (1977). A new genus and two new species in the family Mithrodiidae (Echindoermata: Asteroidea) with comments on the status of species of Mithrodia Gray, 1840. Australian Zoology 19(2): 201-216. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Bahamas [details] Cape Frio [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Guyanas [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mexico [details] New Caledonia [details] Nicaragua [details] Palau Islands [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola longiseta Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Synstellicola longiseta (Humes & Ho, 1967) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: pale flesh tone with large brick-red patches, especially proximally, arm tips black (Sloan et al., 1979). Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: bentic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178200 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Mithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816). 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=178200 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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