WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten nitidus Verrill, 1915
AphiaID: 178668
AphiaID: 178668
| 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 |
Astropecten forcipatus Verrill, 1915 (A variety of A. nitidus Verrill, 1915) | ||||||||||
| 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] 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] 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 | Bahamas [details] Cape Hatteras [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Dominican Republic [details] Florida [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Honduras [details] Mexico [details] Nicaragua [details] Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178668 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten nitidus Verrill, 1915. 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=178668 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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