WoRMS taxon details
Psilaster acuminatus Sladen, 1889
AphiaID: 178709
AphiaID: 178709
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Psilaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Psilaster Sladen, 1885 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Archaster christi Studer, 1884 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [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] 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: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400. [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 | Arctic Ocean [details] Australia [details] Cape Basin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Ecology: Ecology: benthic, continental shelf, continental slope. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (South Africa, New Zealand), depth range 146-1150 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes in Natural History Museum, London (England) 1890.5.7.315-317, Natural History Museum 1890.5.7.318-319. Type locality: Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; SE of Sydney, New South Wales; and NW of Port Hardy, New Zealand (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178709 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Psilaster acuminatus Sladen, 1889. 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=178709 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |