The World Asteroidea Database - Asterias calamaria Gray, 1840

Asteroidea name details

Asterias calamaria Gray, 1840

AphiaID

379082 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:379082)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840)

Rank

Species

Parent

Asterias Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Asterias calamaria Gray, 1840

Direct children (2)

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Variety Asterias calamaria var. reischeki Farquhar, 1909
Variety Asterias calamaria var. japonica Döderlein, 1902 accepted as Coscinasterias tenuispina (Lamarck, 1816) (var. japonica is synonym according to Liao in Liao & Clark (1995))

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Gray, J.E. (1840). XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 175-184., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2335959
page(s): 179 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2021). World Asteroidea Database. Asterias calamaria Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=379082 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-12-31 03:51:57Z

created

Mah, Christopher

[taxonomic tree]

original description Gray, J.E. (1840). XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 175-184., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2335959
page(s): 179 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)