WoRMS taxon details

Bathyceramaster elegans (Ludwig, 1905)

887869  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:887869)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Valvatida (Order)
  10. Goniasteridae (Family)
  11. Bathyceramaster (Genus)
  12. Bathyceramaster elegans (Species)
accepted
Species
Mediaster abyssi Ludwig, 1905 · unaccepted (A variety of M. elegans)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Mediaster elegans Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.</em> 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803
page(s): 125 [details] 
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Bathyceramaster elegans (Ludwig, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887869 on 2025-07-07
Date
action
by
2016-10-13 17:39:03Z
created
Mah, Christopher

Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License


Nomenclature

original description (of Mediaster elegans Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.</em> 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803
page(s): 125 [details] 

original description (of Mediaster abyssi Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.</em> 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803
page(s): 128 [details] 

new combination reference Mah, C.L. (2016). Deep-sea (>1000 m) Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) from the North Pacific, including an overview of <i>Sibogaster</i>,<i> Bathyceramaster</i> n. gen. and three new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4175(2): 101-141., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4175.2.1 [details] 

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

Loading...
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Mediaster elegans Ludwig, 1905)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Mediaster elegans Ludwig, 1905)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 34443) (from synonym Mediaster elegans Ludwig, 1905)

WoRMS

Using WoRMS

Tools

Connect with us

This service is powered by LifeWatch Belgium
Learn more»
Website and databases developed and hosted by Flanders Marine Institute · Page generated on 2025-07-08 01:46:16+02:00 · Privacy and cookie policy