WoRMS taxon details
Davidaster discoideus (Carpenter, 1888)
AphiaID: 246783
AphiaID: 246783
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Capillasterinae (Subfamily) > Davidaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Davidaster Hoggett & Rowe, 1986 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinometra discoidea Carpenter, 1888 (basionym) Davidaster discoidea (Carpenter, 1888) (alternative spelling) Nemaster discoidea (Carpenter, 1888) (synonym) Nemaster insolitus AH Clark, 1917 (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Messing CG (editorial correction) [details] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Clark AH (1921) Report on the crinoids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Univ. Iowa Studies in Nat. Hist. 9(5):1-28. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Meyer DL, Messing CG, Macurda DB (1978) Zoogeography of tropical western Atlantic Crinoidea (Echinodermata). Bull. Marine Sci. 28:412-441 [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Hoggett AK, Rowe FWE (1986) A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A. H. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 88:103-142. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Carpenter PH (1888) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Part II. The Comatulae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 26, x + 402, 70 pls. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Clark AH (1917) Four new echinoderms from the West Indies. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 30:63-70. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Belize (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Costa Rica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Dominican Republic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Guatemala (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Honduras (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Nicaragua (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Panama (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Davidaster with usually no more than 20 arms; pinnules beaded pale and dark or with black tips. [details] Distribution: SE Florida and Bahamas to Colombia, Curaçao and Bonaire, including Caribbean Central America and Antillean Arc; Depth range : 0.6-(?)150 m (deeper records likely erroneous) [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246783 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Davidaster discoideus (Carpenter, 1888). 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=246783 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||
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