African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

Traits taxon details

Coronaster Perrier, 1885

AphiaID

123232 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123232)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Asteriidae Gray, 1840

Direct children (8)

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Species Coronaster briareus (Verrill, 1882)
Species Coronaster eclipes Fisher, 1925
Species Coronaster halicepus Fisher, 1917
Species Coronaster marchenus Ziesenhenne, 1942
Species Coronaster pauciporis Jangoux, 1984
Species Coronaster reticulatus (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Species Coronaster sakuranus (Döderlein, 1902)
Species Coronaster volsellatus (Sladen, 1889)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Perrier, E. (1885). Premiére note Préliminaire des les Echinodermes, recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie. 22(8): 1-72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36373538
page(s): 13 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Coronaster Perrier, 1885. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123232 on 2025-05-12

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Coronaster Perrier, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123232 on 2025-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2009-01-30 03:03:03Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2011-06-27 21:58:12Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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original description Perrier, E. (1885). Premiére note Préliminaire des les Echinodermes, recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie. 22(8): 1-72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36373538
page(s): 13 [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 Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mah, C.; Clark, A. M. (2001). Additions to Clark, A.M. and Mah, C. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea - Part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida in Echinoderm Studies. 6: 229-347. [details]

additional source Fisher, W.K. (1917). The asteroid genus Coronaster. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 30: 23-26. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coronaster)
To ITIS