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WoRMS taxon details
Poraster superbus (Möbius, 1859)
AphiaID: 213326
AphiaID: 213326
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Poraster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Poraster Doderlein, 1916 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Oreaster productus Bell, 1884 Oreaster superbus Möbius, 1859 Pentaceros indicus Koehler, 1910 Pentaceros productus (Bell, 1884) Pentaceros superbus Sladen, 1889 Pentaceros tuberata Sladen, 1889 Poraster bengalensis Doderlein, 1916 (A variety of P. superbus according to Doderlein (1936).) Poraster indicus Doderlein, 1916 (A variety of P. superbus according to Doderlein (1936).) Poraster productus Doderlein, 1916 (A synonym according to Doderlein (1936)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Möbius,K. (1859). Neue Seesterne des Hamburger und Ieler Museums. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg 4(2). 14 p. [details] 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] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Zoological Catalogue of Australia 33. Echinodermata. Melbourne: CSIRO Australia, 510 pp. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Caledonia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, Philippines, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, continental shelf, inner continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, (?Indo)-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 25-55 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) No. 3742. Type locality: Sumatra, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2009). Poraster superbus (Möbius, 1859). In: Mah, C.L. (2009). World Asteroidea database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213326 on 2010-09-02 | ||||||||||||||
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