WoRMS banner
 Home
 About
 Search taxa
 Taxon tree
 Literature
 Distribution
 Specimens
 Match taxa
 Editors
 Statistics
 Users
 Webservice
 Photogallery
 Info downloads
 Sponsors
 Glossary
 Log in

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917 
AphiaID: 213291

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
Source  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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Acanthaster brevispinus brevispinus Fisher, 1917
Subspecies Acanthaster brevispinus seychellensis Jangoux & Aziz, 1984
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Specimen  Holotype: USNM 37027 [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 28 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Ecology: Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, west Pacific, depth range to 20 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Holotype: Holotype in U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 37027. Type locality: off Sirun Is., Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, 18 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Madsen (1955) suspects that this species may prove to be a short spined variation of A. planci (Linnaeus, 1758) (Grindley, 1963). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213291
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-09-04 22:25:11Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-27 07:27:35Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2008-12-07 14:43:37Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917. 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=213291 on 2013-05-18
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License