WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Verrill, A. E. (1915). Report on the starfishes of the West Indies, Florida, and Brazil, including those obtained by the Bahama expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. <em>Bulletins form the Laboratories of Natural History.</em> 7(1):1-232, 29 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12346117 page(s): 91 [details]
original description
(of Ophidiaster pinguis H.L. Clark, 1941) Clark, H. L. (1941). Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis expeditions to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. The Echinoderms (other than holothurians). <em>Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural.</em> 15(1): 1-154, 10 plates. page(s): 51 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Othercontext source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Validity Thought to be a synonym of Tamaria floridae (Perrier, 1881) by A.H. Clark (1948) but a valid species according to Downey (1973). [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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