WoRMS taxon details
Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830)
AphiaID: 213286
AphiaID: 213286
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Protoreaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Protoreaster Doderlein, 1916 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias lincki de Blainville, 1830 Oreaster lincki Lutken, 1864 Oreaster muricatus (Gray, 1840) (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936)) Oreaster reinhartdi Lutken, 1865 (Synonym accoridng ot Doderlein (1916)) Pentaceros lincki Brown, 1910 Pentaceros muricatus Gray, 1840 (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936)) Pentaceros reinhartdi (Lutken, 1864) (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Bell, F.J. (1884). Echinodermata. In: R.W. Coppinger (ed): Report on the Zoological Collections made in the indo-pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-2. London. [details] basis of record: Simpson J.J. & R.N.R. Brown (1910). Asteroidea of Portugese East Africa. Proc. R. phys. Soc. Edinburgh 18: 45-60. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] 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] from synonym: Döderlein, L. (1936). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. III. Die unterfamile Oreasterinae. Siboga-Expedition, 46(2): 295-369, pls. 21-32. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Jangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o - Zoologische wetenschappen Nr 208. 50 pp, 7 pl. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola kossmanni Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola oreastriphilus Kossmann, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicomes tumidulus Humes & Cressey, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Synstellicola kossmanni (Humes & Ho, 1967) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Synstellicola pichoni (Humes & Ho, 1966) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: red on pink or grey background, furrow spines white with pink tube feet juveniles mottled blue-green or grey-green. Commonly with commensal carapid fish and paleomonid shrimps (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Ceylon, bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); western and central Indian Ocean, including Ceylon, western Australia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indian Ocean, depth range 1-10 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Publication date: Year of description 1834 in Clark & Rowe (1971). Type locality: unknown. Holotype in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) No. 5556 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). P. linckii in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213286 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830). 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=213286 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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