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Asteroidea taxon details
Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus
(Fisher, 1910)
AphiaID
380816
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380816)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asterozoa
Asteroidea
Ambuloasteroidea
Neoasteroidea
Valvatacea
Paxillosida
Benthopectinidae
Nearchaster
Nearchaster (Nearchaster)
Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus
Status
accepted
Rank
Species
Parent
Nearchaster (Nearchaster)
Fisher, 1911
Original name
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
Synonymised names
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
·
unaccepted
Saraster insignis
A.H. Clark, 1916
·
unaccepted
(Synonym according to A.M. Clark (1981).)
Environment
marine,
brackish
,
fresh
,
terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
)
Fisher, W.K. (1910). New starfishes from the North Pacific. I. Phanerozonia. II. Spinulosa. <em>Zologischer Anzeiger.</em> 35(18): 545-553, 568-574.
,
available online at
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9741991#page/559/mode/1up
page(s): 545
[details]
Taxonomic citation
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database.
Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus
(Fisher, 1910). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380816 on 2025-05-15
Taxonomic edit history
Date
action
by
2009-01-19 15:30:12Z
created
Mah, Christopher
[taxonomic tree]
Sources (3)
Documented distribution (0)
Attributes (3)
Links (5)
original description
(of
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
)
Fisher, W.K. (1910). New starfishes from the North Pacific. I. Phanerozonia. II. Spinulosa. <em>Zologischer Anzeiger.</em> 35(18): 545-553, 568-574.
,
available online at
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9741991#page/559/mode/1up
page(s): 545
[details]
original description
(of
Saraster insignis
A.H. Clark, 1916
)
Clark, A. H. (1916). Six new starfishes from the Gulf of California and adjacent waters. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 29: 51-62.
,
available online at
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3336447
page(s): 54
[details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
,
available online at
http://www.iobis.org/
[details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Definitions
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
(from synonym
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record)
(from synonym
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (61 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 27799)
(from synonym
Acantharchaster aciculosus
Fisher, 1910
)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 36895)
(from synonym
Saraster insignis
A.H. Clark, 1916
)