Gorgonocephalus arcticus Leach, 1819 
AphiaID: 124966

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815
Synonymised taxa		Astrophyton agassizi Stimpson, 1854 (synonym) Gorgonocephalus agassizi (Stimpson, 1854) (synonym)
Sources		original description: Leach, W.E. 1819. Descriptions des nouvelles espèces d’Animaux découvertes par le vaisseau Isabelle dans un voyage au pôle boréal. Journal de Physique, de Chimie 88: 462-467., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29607# [details] 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] 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: 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: 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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] 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   English northern basket star  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Davis Strait [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 18 [details] FAO fishing area 21 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hudson Strait [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: Arctic to Cape Cod  [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images		[image from synonym] Grieg (1910, pl. 1) added on 2009-08-05 - author: J. A. Grieg scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: not checked Gorgonocephalus arcticus added on 2010-02-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-12-05 14:20:47 Gorgonocephalus arcticus-preserved added on 2010-07-28 - author: Nozères, Claude qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-12-05 14:20:12 Gorgonocephalus arcticus-detail added on 2010-07-28 - author: Nozères, Claude qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-12-05 14:21:06 Gorgonocephalus arcticus added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day () qualitystatus: checked by Stöhr, Sabine on 2012-12-05 14:20:30
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124966
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Hansson, Hans 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
		[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
		Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Gorgonocephalus arcticus Leach, 1819. 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=124966 on 2013-05-25