Asteroidea taxon details
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 123776
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Typetaxon of | |
Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
|
| Parent | | Asterias Linnaeus, 1758 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Asteracanthion distichum Brandt, 1851
Asteracanthion rubens Müller & Troschel, 1842
Asteracanthion violaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (Synonym)
Asterias attenuata Bell, 1891
Asterias clathrata Pennant, 1777 (synonym)
Asterias disticha Sladen, 1889 (Synonym)
Asterias fabricii Perrier, 1875 (Synonym according to Verrill (1895))
Asterias gigantea Bell, 1891
Asterias glacialis Pennant, 1777 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Asterias holsatica Retzius, 1805 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Asterias minuta Linnaeus, 1761 (synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Asterias murrayi Bell, 1891 (synonym according to Mortensen (1927))
Asterias pallida Perrier, 1875
Asterias rubens violacea O.F. Müller, 1776 (synonym)
Asterias spinosa Say, 1825 (synonym according to Downey in Clark & Downey (1992))
Asterias stimpsoni Verrill, 1866
Asterias violacea O.F. Mueller, 1788 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930))
Asterias vulgaris Verrill, 1866 (synonym according to Downey in Clark & Downey (1992))
Stellonia rubens Nardo, 1834
Uraster rubens Forbes, 1841
Uraster violaceus Forbes, 1841 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930))
|
| Sources | |
original description: 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]
basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
page(s): 313 [details]
additional source: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]
basis of record (from synonym): Agassiz, A. (1863). On the embryology of Asteracanthion berylinus Ag. and a species allied to A. rubens M.T. A. pallidus, Ag. Proc. Amer. Acad. April 14, 1-8, with a folding plate [details] [view taxon]
original description (from synonym): Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details] [view taxon]
original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae: L. Salvii, 48 + 578 pp. [details] [view taxon]
context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
|
Vernacular
Names | | |
Direct child
taxa
[show all] | |
Variety Asterias rubens var. migratum Sladen, 1878 accepted as Asterias amurensis Lutken, 1871
Subspecies Asterias rubens violacea O.F. Müller, 1776 accepted as Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
|
| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | Africa [details]
Arctic Ocean [details]
Bay of Biscay [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Birkenfels (shipwreck) [details]
British Isles [details]
Calais [details]
Cape Cod [details]
Cape Hatteras [details]
De Haan [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Florida [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Greenland [details]
Grevelingen [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kattegat [details]
Labrador Basin [details]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norway [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Oostende [details]
Oosterschelde [details]
Portugal [details]
Rockall Trough [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Sargasso Sea [details]
South Carolina [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Trondheim [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
Voordelta [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of Norway [details]
West European Basin [details]
Westerschelde [details]
White Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Yucatan [details]
|
| Specimen | |
Holotype (from synonym): MNHN EcAh 1799 [view taxon]
|
| Feedingtype | |
predator [details]
|
| Host of | |
Pseudanthessius dubius Sars G.O., 1918 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Scottomyzon gibberum (T. & A. Scott, 1894) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
|
| Links | | BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (510 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
|
| Notes | |
Breeding: Planktonic bipinnaria and brachilaria larva. Summer [details]
Distribution: Not recorded for Mediterranean [details]
Distribution: Labrador to Cape Hatteras [details]
Distribution: Lower shore to more than 200 m depth, on rock gravel and sand; very common all round the British Isles [details]
Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
|
| Images | | 
Common starfish - Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-01-13 - author: Bruno Van Bogaert
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-08-09 - author: IMARES ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-08-09 - author: IMARES ()
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-06 - author: Freddy Vermeulen
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-14 - author: Decleer Misjel
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens and Mya arenaria shells in 15 m water depths.
added on 2006-09-26 - author: M L Zettler
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2007-11-29 - author: Philippart, Catharina
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2007-11-29 - author: Philippart, Catharina
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens
added on 2009-03-13 - author: Wirtz, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2009-03-13 12:17:15 |
|
Asterias rubens
added on 2009-03-13 - author: Wirtz, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2009-03-13 12:17:25 |
|
Gewone zeester
added on 2009-05-05 - author: Vandepitte, Leen
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
[image from synonym]
Asterias vulgaris
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Melisa Wong ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens
added on 2012-01-23 - author: Eneman, Eddy
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
Asterias rubens
added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
20th July 2012- Sampling at Viana do Castelo
added on 2012-08-20 - author: Jack Sewell
qualitystatus: not checked |
|
|
| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123776 |
Taxonomic
Edit history | |
|
| | |
[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] |
| | | Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758. In: Mah, C.L. (2013). World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013). World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123776 on 2013-06-20 |
| | | |
| |
