WoRMS taxon details
Archaster typicus Müller & Troschel, 1840
AphiaID: 213119
AphiaID: 213119
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Archasteridae (Family) > Archaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Archasteridae Viguier, 1878 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Archaster Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Archaster nicobaricus Behn in Mobius, 1859 (Synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Astropecten stellaris Gray, 1840 (Synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-Pacific [details] Mascarene Basin [details] New Caledonia [details] Palau Islands [details] Seychelles (not valid) [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Astericola carens Humes, 1986 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Synstellicola carens (Humes, 1986) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Maldive area, Bay of Bengal , East Indies, north Australia, Philippines, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-60 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: sulawesi (as Celebes), Indo-Malay Archipelago (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213119 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Archaster typicus Müller & Troschel, 1840. 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=213119 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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