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Acanthaster Gervais, 1841 
AphiaID: 205212

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Acanthasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Acanthasteridae
Synonymised
taxa		  Echinaster Gray, 1840
 Echinities Müller & Troschel, 1844 (A junior homonym of Echinites Gesner 1758; Leske 1778 (Echiniodea) according to Sladen (1889))
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

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[hide all]		 Species Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917
  » Subspecies Acanthaster brevispinus brevispinus Fisher, 1917
» Subspecies Acanthaster brevispinus seychellensis Jangoux & Aziz, 1984
Species Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster echinus Gervais, 1841 accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster ellisi (Gray, 1840) accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster mauritiensis de Loriol, 1885 accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster pseudoplanci Caso, 1962 accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Acanthaster solaris Schreber, 1793 accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Comores [details]
New Zealand [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Description: The members of the genus are confined to tropical seas where they inhabit coral reefs, usually in the littoral zone, while A. brevispinus has been recorded from somewhat deeper water. They feed on coral polyps. Occur throughout the Indo-Pacific region (Grindley, 1963). [details]

Remark: Type species: Acanthaster echinus Gervais, 1841 (=Asterias planci Linnaeus, 1758) by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205212
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-09-04 22:25:11Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-10-01 17:04:30Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-04 06:53:11Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-12-07 14:43:37Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acanthaster Gervais, 1841. 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=205212 on 2013-05-25
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