Astropecten velitaris von Martens, 1865 
AphiaID: 213233

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Valvatacea > Paxillosida > Astropectinidae > Astropecten

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Astropecten Gray, 1840
Sources		original description: Martens, E. von (1865). Ueber östasiatiche Echinodermen.1. Japanische Seesterne. 2. Chinesische Seesterne. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 31: 345-360., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31586#page/353/mode/1up [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Red Sea (not certain) [details]
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes		Description: Also distributed in Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west Pacific (?Red Sea accordinto to Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. (1971)) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype in Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) No. 1504. Type locality: South China Sea (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213233
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-01 09:50:16Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-09-25 12:31:29Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2008-05-23 04:26:07Z   changed   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten velitaris von Martens, 1865. 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=213233 on 2013-05-25