WoRMS taxon details
Capillaster multiradiata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 213340
AphiaID: 213340
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Capillasterinae (Subfamily) > Capillaster (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (alternative spelling) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Capillaster multiradiatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Capillaster AH Clark, 1909 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinometra multiradiata (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Asterias multiradiata Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1911) The recent crinoids of the coasts of Africa. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 40:1–51. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1931) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(3) Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82. viii + 816 pp., 82 pls. [details] source of synonymy: Clark AH (1909) The crinoids of the "Gazelle"-Expedition. Zoologischen Anzeiger 34(11/12):363-370. [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Leach W.E. (1815a). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. Vol. 2. R.P. Nodder, London. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Scambicornus pillaii Stock, 1983 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997); Arabian Sea (presumed to be from west India or Pakistan) (Clark & Rowe, 1971). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-292 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); littoral and down to about 30 m. (A.H. Clark, 1911). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope, suspension feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Spelling: C. multiradiatus in Clark & Rowe (1971), Marshall & Rowe, 1981 and Sastry (1997). Holotype (probable) in Universitets Lund, Lund (Sweden). Type locality: Indian Seas (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213340 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Capillaster multiradiata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Messing, C. (2013) World List of Crinoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213340 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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