WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 213245
AphiaID: 213245
| 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 |
Asterias aranciaca Audouin, 1826 (synonym according to Doderlein (1917)) Astropecten armatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (non A. armatus (Gray 1840)= A. polyacanthus Muller & Troschel, 1842 according to Perrier (1875)) Astropecten burbonica Doderlein, 1917 (A variety of A. polyacanthus Muller & Troschel, 1842) Astropecten chinensis Grube, 1866 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Astropecten edwardsi Verrill, 1870 (synonym) Astropecten ensifer Grube, 1865 (synonym) Astropecten hystrix Müller & Troschel, 1842 Astropecten samoensis Perrier, 1869 (A variety according to Doderlein (1917)) | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400. [details] original description (from synonym): Doderlein, L. (1917). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition. 1. Die Gattung Astropecten und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga-Expedition 46a: 1-190. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Astropecten polyacanthus phragmorus Fisher, 1913 Subspecies Astropecten polyacanthus polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Hawaiian Islands [details] Kenya [details] Kermadec Islands [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Caledonia [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (40 nucleotides; 35 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Coulour in life: paxillae vary from cream through grey-green to brown, usually with darker patterning variable in extent and form, periphery is generally white but may darken distally, occasional, or groups of, supero marginal spines may be dark brown basally, white and fawn odorally (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-185 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes (probable) in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Red Sea (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213245 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten polyacanthus 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=213245 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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