WoRMS taxon details
Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892)
AphiaID: 213137
AphiaID: 213137
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Monachaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Monachaster Doderlein, 1916 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Goniodiscus sanderi Meissner, 1892 Monachaster umbonatus Macan, 1938 (Synonym according to Clark and Rowe (1971) & verified by Tortonese (1976)) | |||||||||||||
| 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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Walenkamp, J.H.C. (1990). Systematics and zoogeography of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Zoologische Verhandelingen 261, Leiden. 86 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: slate grey with purplish borders to supero-marginals, medreporite with circle of ten purplish spots, adoral surface mid-grey centre of plates paler, furrow spines white to red <213>. General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagacar (Tortonese, 1980). [details] Remark: In family Goniasteridae in Tortonese (1980). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213137 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892). 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=213137 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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