WoRMS taxon details
Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 213296
AphiaID: 213296
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Dactylosaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Dactylosaster Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias cylindricus Lamarck, 1816 Linckia cylindrica von Martens, 1866 Ophidiaster asperulus Lutken, 1871 (A synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster cylindricus Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: 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: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Martens, E. von (1866). Ueber östasiatiche Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 32:: 57-88; 133-189. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Dactylosaster cylindricus cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816) Subspecies Dactylosaster cylindricus pacificus Fisher, 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: the shiny skin uniform burgundy (Sloan et al., 1979). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, South Pacific Is. And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman and Nicobar Is., Bay of Bengal (Sastry, 1997). General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Type locality: ?Australia; Lamarck (1816) gives the locality as 'les mers australes' but Perrier (1875) as 'Ile de France' (Mauritius) in Clark & Rowe (1971). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213296 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816). 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=213296 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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