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Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771) 
AphiaID: 124160

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Valvatacea > Valvatida > Solasteridae > Solaster
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Solaster Forbes, 1839
Synonymised
taxa
  Asterias alboverrucosa Brandt, 1835 (Synonym according to Fisher (1911))
Asterias aspera O.F. Müller, 1776 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Asterias endeca Linnaeus, 1771 (synonym)
Asterias rumphii Parelius, 1768 (synonym)
Solaster endeca decemradiata Sladen, 1889 (synonym)
Solaster galaxides Verrill, 1909 (Synonym according to Fisher (1911))
Solaster intermedius Sluiter, 1895 (synonym according to (Engel, 1935))
Stellonia endeca L. Agassiz, 1836
Sources  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]

basis of record: 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, 1977 [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [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. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies, 5: pp. 183-250 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1771). Mantissa Plantarum. Holmiae, 1-588 [details] [view taxon]

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]

context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch negenvoeter  [details]
English purple sun star  [details]
German gelber Sonnenstern  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål glattsolstjerne  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk glattsolstjerne  [details]
Swedish gul solsjöstjärna  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Solaster endeca decemradiata Sladen, 1889 accepted as Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
Subspecies Solaster endeca pacificus Djakonov, 1938 accepted as Solaster pacificus Djakonov, 1938
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
British Isles [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cape Cod [details]
Circumboreal [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Davis Strait [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
English Channel [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Irish Sea [details]
Kara Sea [details]
Kattegat [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North Pacific [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norway [details]
Nova Scotia [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Shetlands [details]
Spitsbergen [details]
Sweden [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Trondheim [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
West Coast of Ireland [details]

Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (269 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding: Direct development. March-April [details]

Distribution: In 5 or more than 200 m on various substrates. Northwest coasts, occasional in western Ireland, Irish Sea and Shetland, and south along the northeast coast as far south as Northumberland [details]

Distribution: Arctic to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
added on 2009-08-05 - author: J. A. Grieg
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Solaster endeca - aboral
Solaster endeca - aboral
added on 2011-09-04 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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Solaster endeca
Solaster endeca
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Solaster endeca
Solaster endeca
added on 2012-01-23 - author: Eneman, Eddy
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2012-11-03 03:14:35
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124160
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2008-01-24 09:19:09Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Solaster endeca (Linnaeus, 1771). 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=124160 on 2013-05-20
  
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