WoRMS taxon details
Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 213289
AphiaID: 213289
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Acanthasteridae (Family) > Acanthaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthaster Gervais, 1841 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (synonym according to Verrill (1914)) Acanthaster echinus Gervais, 1841 (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) Acanthaster ellisi (Gray, 1840) Acanthaster mauritiensis de Loriol, 1885 (Synonym according to Madsen (1955)) Acanthaster pseudoplanci Caso, 1962 Acanthaster solaris Schreber, 1793 (Synonym according to Madsen (1955)) Asterias echinites Ellis & Solander, 1786 (Synonym according to Verrill (1914)) Asterias echinusEllis Verrill, 1914 Asterias planci Linnaeus, 1758 Asterias solaris Schreber, 1793 (Synonym according to Madsen (1955)) Stellonia echinites L. Agassiz, 1836 (synonym according to Verrill (1914)) | |||||||||||||
| 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: 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] basis of record: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [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] 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fisher, W.K. (1919). Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3(100): 1-547. 156 pls. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Kermadec Islands [details] Madagascar [details] Maldives [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Pacific Ocean [details] Palau Islands [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Molucomes ovatus Kim I.H., 2007 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Anthessius alatus Humes & Stock, 1965 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Onychopygus impavidus Humes & Cressey, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicola acanthasteris Humes, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicomes bisphaerulifer Humes, 1986 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Synstellicola acanthasteris (Humes, 1970) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (245 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1156 nucleotides; 289 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection to www.reefvid.org To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: deep brown above with deep red tips to spines, tube feet fawn (Humphreys, 1981). Associated with live coral beds, sometimes taking shelter under stones close to the live colonies (Sastry, 1991). Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Tuamotus, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, W India, Pakistan, 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); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991). General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific region, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, reef (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Goa, West coast of India. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213289 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=213289 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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