| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Coscinasterias Verrill, 1870 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Asteracanthion calamaria Dujardin & Hupe, 1862
Asterias calamaria Gray, 1840
Asterias jehennesii Cuvier in Perrier, 1875
Coscinasterias (Stolasterias) calamaria (Gray, 1840)
Coscinasterias jehennesi (Perrier, 1869) (synonym according to Perrier (1875))
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| 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]
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]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
False Bay [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South Angola [details]
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| Links | | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
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| Notes | |
Description: According to Clark & Rowe (11971), known from Mauritius (and East Africa) and from temperate but not tropical Australia. The British Museum record from the South Pacific is based on the 'Challenge' specimen determined as Asterias gemmifera (a South American species) by Sladen. [details]
Type locality: Type locality: 'Isle de France' (Mauritius); New Holland (Australia)'. [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178787 |
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| | | Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840). 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=178787 on 2013-05-18 |
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