Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) - Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867

RAS taxon details

Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867

AphiaID

123220 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123220)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Asteriidae Gray, 1840

Direct children (5)

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Subgenus Coscinasterias (Stolasterias) (Sladen, 1889)
1. Species Coscinasterias (Stolasterias) candicans Ludwig, 1903 accepted as Notasterias candicans (Ludwig, 1903)
Species Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840)
Species Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867
Species Coscinasterias victoriae Koehler, 1911 accepted as Diplasterias brucei (Koehler, 1907)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Verrill, A.E. (1867). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 1. Descriptions of new starfishes from New Zealand. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1(2): 247-251., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13465264
page(s): 248 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2021). World Asteroidea Database. Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2021) Register of Antarctic Species at: http://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123220 on 2025-05-13

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123220 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2008-12-28 23:54:02Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2009-01-05 03:22:03Z

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Mah, Christopher

2017-06-14 02:05:55Z

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Mah, Christopher

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original description Verrill, A.E. (1867). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 1. Descriptions of new starfishes from New Zealand. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1(2): 247-251., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13465264
page(s): 248 [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 Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII. 510 pp. [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 (Coscinasterias)
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