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Pisaster giganteus (Stimpson, 1857)

Pisaster giganteus
Pisaster giganteus

240758  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:240758)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Forcipulatacea (Superorder)
  9. Forcipulatida (Order)
  10. Asteriidae (Family)
  11. Pisaster (Genus)
  12. Pisaster giganteus (Species)
accepted
Species
Asterias capitata Stimpson, 1862 · unaccepted (Subspecies according to Fisher (1930))
Asterias exquisita de Loriol, 1887 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher...)  
Synonym according to Fisher (1926, 1930)
Asterias luetkeni Stimpson, 1862 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher...)  
Synonym according to Fisher (1926, 1930)
Pisaster luetkeni var. australis Verrill, 1914 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher...)  
Synonym according to Fisher (1926, 1930)

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(of Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857) Stimpson, W. (1857). On the Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific shores of North America. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 6: 444-532, pls. 18-23 [preprint issued April 1857, journal edition 1858]., available online at https://archive.org/stream/crustaceaechinod00stim#page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 88 [details] OpenAccess publication
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Pisaster giganteus (Stimpson, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=240758 on 2025-05-04
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2007-06-03 15:46:28Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-10-22 04:46:32Z
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Mah, Christopher

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Nomenclature

original description (of Asterias capitata Stimpson, 1862) Stimpson, W. (1862). On new genera and species of starfishes of the family Pycnopodidae (<i>Asteracanthion</i> Mueller & Troschel). <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural HIstory.</em> 8: 261-273., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492675
page(s): 264 [details] 

original description (of Asterias exquisita de Loriol, 1887) Loriol, P. de. (1887). Notes pour servir a l'etude des Echinodermes, no. 2. <em>Recueil zoologique suisse.</em> vol. 4, no. 3: 365-407, plates 15-18., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106276421;view=2up;seq=378
page(s): 403 [details] 

original description (of Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857) Stimpson, W. (1857). On the Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific shores of North America. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 6: 444-532, pls. 18-23 [preprint issued April 1857, journal edition 1858]., available online at https://archive.org/stream/crustaceaechinod00stim#page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 88 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Asterias luetkeni Stimpson, 1862) Stimpson, W. (1862). On new genera and species of starfishes of the family Pycnopodidae (<i>Asteracanthion</i> Mueller & Troschel). <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural HIstory.</em> 8: 261-273., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492675
page(s): 265 [details] 

original description (of Pisaster luetkeni var. australis Verrill, 1914) Verrill, A.E. (1914). Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: US National Museum 14: 1-408 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20755223
page(s): 88 [details] 

basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

Other

additional source Fisher, W.K. (1930). Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters, Pt. 3: Forcipulata (Concluded). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-356.Pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7871861#page/5/mode/1up [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pisaster capitatus (Stimpson, 1862))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pisaster giganteus) 
To GenBank (112423 nucleotides; 24328 proteins) (from synonym Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857)
To GenBank (57 nucleotides; 29 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Asterias Capitata USNM 1280 - Dorsal) (from synonym Asterias capitata Stimpson, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (10 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 1280) (from synonym Asterias capitata Stimpson, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 1281) (from synonym Asterias luetkeni Stimpson, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 1283) (from synonym Asterias gigantea Stimpson, 1857)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Pisaster giganteus
Pisaster giganteus
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Asterias Capitata USNM 1280 - Dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Asterias Capitata USNM 1280 - Dorsal)
Hosted externally, from synonym
To NMNH Extant Collection (Asterias capitata USNM 1280 - ventral)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Asterias capitata USNM 1280 - ventral)
Hosted externally, from synonym
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