WoRMS taxon details
Astropecten granulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842
AphiaID: 213247
AphiaID: 213247
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Astropecten granulatus granulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Subspecies Astropecten granulatus natalensis John, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in East Indies, north Australia and Philippines (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-130 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Asteropecten granulatus in A.H. Clark (1911). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213247 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten granulatus 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=213247 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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