Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842 
AphiaID: 124951

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Asteronychidae (Family) > Asteronyx (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Asteronyx Müller & Troschel, 1842
Parent		Asteronyx Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised taxa		Asteronyx Cooperi Bell, 1909 (synonym) Asteronyx dispar Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 (synonym) Asteronyx locardi Koehler, 1895 (synonym) Ophiuraster patersoni Litvinova, 1998 (Junior synonym) Ophiuropsis lymani Studer, 1884 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [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: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Studer, T. 1884. Verzeichnis der während der Reise S.M.S. “Gazelle” um die Erde, 1874-76 gesammelten Asteriden und Euryaliden. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2, 1-64. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr, S. (2005). Who's who among baby brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea): postmetamorphic development of some North Atlantic forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 543-576 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Litvinova, N. M. 1998. Two new species of the genus Ophiuraster (Ophiurinae, Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) from French collections and some remarks on the genus. Zoosystema, 20(3), 439-444. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lütken, C. F.; Mortensen, T. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and Southern America and off the Galapagos Islands. XXV. The Ophiuridae. . Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 23(2), 97-208. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1896. Note preliminaire sur les Ophiures des premières campagnes de la “Princesse Alice”. Mem. Soc. zool. France, 9, 241-253. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1895. Dragages profonds executes a bord du Caudan dans le Golfe de Gascogne. Rapport préliminaire sur le Échinodermes. Revue biologique du Nord de la France 7: 439-496., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/revuebiologiqued07lill page(s): 470 [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   Swedish piprensarormstjärna  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		type locality: Bay of Biscay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] British Isles [details] Caribbean Sea [details] England [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Finnmark (from specimen) Kattegat (from specimen) Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa (country) [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Venezuela [details]
Specimens		Syntype: SMNH Type-3288, locality Finnmark [details] Syntype: SMNH Type-3732, locality Kattegat [details] Syntype: SMNH Type-3287, locality Kattegat (SW, as 'Bohuslän, norway as far as Hammerfäst') [details]
Host of		Chordeumium obesum (Jungersen, 1914) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Chordeumium obesum (Jungersen, 1914) (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS
Notes		Breeding: Large eggs, probably direct development [details] Distribution: In more than 100 m depth, clinging to sea pens and gorgonians towards the edge of the continental shelf and in some Scottish sea lochs. Almost cosmopolitan in depths of 100 to 1800 m. [details] Distribution: General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (Pacific and Atlantic Oceans), depth range 62-2963 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also recorded in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Images		Asteronyx loveni J. Müller & Troschel, 1842 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-08-31 14:18:44 Asteronyx loveni J. Müller & Troschel, 1842 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-08-31 14:18:58 Asteronyx loveni J. Müller & Troschel, 1842 added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-08-31 14:19:07
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124951
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Hansson, Hans 2007-02-26 14:50:06Z   changed   Stöhr, Sabine 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asteronyx loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842. In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124951 on 2013-05-25