WoRMS taxon details
Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840)
AphiaID: 213317
AphiaID: 213317
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Spinulosacea (Superorder) > Spinulosida (Order) > Echinasteridae (Family) > Echinaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinaster Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cribrella fallax Dujardin & Hupé, 1862 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Echinaster eridanella Koehler, 1910 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971)) Echinaster fallax Muller & Troschel, 1842 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Echinaster sepositus Michelin, 1845 Echinaster vestitus Perrier, 1869 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [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] original description (from synonym): Koehler, R. (1910). An account of the shallow-water Asteroidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum Part 6: 1-192. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Botulosoma endoarrhenum Carton, 1974 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: golden brown to dark brown with large irregular brown markings transversely on arms (Humphreys, 1981). General distribution: Red Sea and indian Ocean from Mozambique to the Bay of Bengal (Tortonese, 1980). Also distributed in Ceylon and Bay of Bengal (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] Remark: In subgenus (Othilia) in(Tortonese (1949). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213317 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840). 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=213317 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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