WoRMS taxon details

Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917

213291  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213291)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  7. Valvatida (Order)
  8. Acanthasteridae (Family)
  9. Acanthaster (Genus)
  10. Acanthaster brevispinus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fisher, W.K. (1917). New starfishes from the Philippines and Celebes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 30: 89-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3334970
page(s): 92 [details]   
Holotype  USNM 37027  
Holotype USNM 37027 [details]
Mah, C.L. (2019). World Asteroidea Database. Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213291 on 2019-10-14
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

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original description Fisher, W.K. (1917). New starfishes from the Philippines and Celebes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 30: 89-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3334970
page(s): 92 [details]   

basis of record Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, <B><I>in</I></B>: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). <i>Echinoderm Studies,</i> 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Holotype USNM 37027 [details]
From other sources
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]
 

To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) 
To Encyclopedia of Life 
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 30 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (2 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 37027) 

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