WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten monacanthus Sladen, 1883
AphiaID: 213246
AphiaID: 213246
| 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 notograptus Sladen, 1888 (Synonym accoridng to A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971).) Astropecten squamosus Sluiter, 1889 (Synonym according to Doderlein (1917)) | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, norh Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-50 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes in Natural History Museum, London (England) 1890.5.7.302-3 (2 specimens). Type locality: 11°07'N 123°07'E, Philippines (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213246 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten monacanthus Sladen, 1883. 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=213246 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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