The World Asteroidea Database - Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus (Fisher, 1910)

Asteroidea taxon details

Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus (Fisher, 1910)

AphiaID

380816 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380816)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Nearchaster (Nearchaster) Fisher, 1911

Orig. 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. Zologischer Anzeiger. 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. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Nearchaster (Nearchaster) aciculosus (Fisher, 1910). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380816 on 2024-04-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-01-19 15:30:12Z

created

Mah, Christopher

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Acantharchaster aciculosus Fisher, 1910) Fisher, W.K. (1910). New starfishes from the North Pacific. I. Phanerozonia. II. Spinulosa. Zologischer Anzeiger. 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. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 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

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)