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Echinaster (Othilia) spinulosus Verrill, 1869 
AphiaID: 178754

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Spinulosacea > Spinulosida > Echinasteridae > Echinaster > Echinaster (Othilia)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Echinaster (Othilia) Gray, 1840 represented as Echinaster Müller & Troschel, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Echinaster (Othilia) modestus Downey, 1973 (Synonymy according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992).)
Echinaster modestus Downey, 1973 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992).)
Verrillaster spinulosus Downey, 1973 (Synonym)
Sources  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: 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belize (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cape Hatteras [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Dominican Republic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Florida [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Honduras [details]
Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Nicaragua [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Venezuela (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Yucatan [details]

Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178754
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-08-05 07:22:50Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-10-26 05:06:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Echinaster (Othilia) spinulosus Verrill, 1869. 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=178754 on 2013-05-24
  
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