WoRMS taxon details
Pentaceraster mammillatus (Audouin, 1826)
AphiaID: 213126
AphiaID: 213126
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Pentaceraster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Pentaceraster Doderlein, 1916 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias mammillata Audouin, 1827 Oreaster hiulcus Perrier, 1875 Oreaster mammillatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Oreaster verrucosus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Pentaceros hiulcus Perrier, 1875 Pentaceros mammillatus Perrier, 1875 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] from synonym: Döderlein, L. (1936). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. III. Die unterfamile Oreasterinae. Siboga-Expedition, 46(2): 295-369, pls. 21-32. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: interadial spines green with orange tubercles (Humphreys, 1981) Also recorded in Persian Gulf and Arabia (Tortonese (1949) and Clark & Rowe (1971)). [details] Spelling: P. mamillatus Doderlein, 1916 is lapsus for P. mammillatus (Audouin, 1826) [details] Type locality: Type locality: Egypt [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213126 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pentaceraster mammillatus (Audouin, 1826). 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=213126 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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