WoRMS taxon details
Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
AphiaID: 213290
AphiaID: 213290
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Acanthasteridae (Family) > Acanthaster (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym according to Verrill (1914)) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthaster Gervais, 1841 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
source of synonymy: 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] source of synonymy: 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 | Seychelles (not valid) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213290 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786). 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=213290 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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