WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 213234
AphiaID: 213234
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Astropecten (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Astropecten Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astropecten bonnieri Koehler, 1905 (Synonym according to Dollfus (1974)) | |||||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: Dollfus, R.Ph. (1974). De l'Astropecten bonnieri R. Koehler, 1905 (Echinodermes, Stellerides). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3ieme serie, no. 254, Zoologie 176: 1449-1454 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in SE Arabia, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Red Sea. Spelled A. Hemprichii in Simpson & Brown (1910). According to Rowe & Gates (1995), Astropecten carcharicus Döderlein, 1917, Astropecten hemprichi Döderlein, 1917 (Red Sea) and Astropecten carcharicus formosanus Döderlein, 1917 (south coast of Formosa) are possible synonyms but more material is needed for thorough comparisons. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213234 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842. 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=213234 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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