WoRMS taxon details

Trichaster flagellifer von Martens, 1866

244383  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244383)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Euryophiurida (Superorder)
  9. Euryalida (Order)
  10. Euryalidae (Family)
  11. Trichaster (Genus)
  12. Trichaster flagellifer (Species)
accepted
Species
Trichaster elegans Ludwig, 1878 · unaccepted (synonym acc. to Liao & Clark (1995))
Trichaster flageriffera · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Martens, E. von. (1866). Ueber ostasiatische Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 32: 57-88., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7060827 [details] 
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Trichaster flagellifer von Martens, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244383 on 2025-07-16
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2007-07-18 12:17:12Z
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Stöhr, Sabine
2013-07-04 08:15:49Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

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Nomenclature

original description Martens, E. von. (1866). Ueber ostasiatische Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 32: 57-88., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7060827 [details] 

original description (of Trichaster elegans Ludwig, 1878) Ludwig, H. 1880. Morphologische Studien an Echinodermen - Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Ophiuren. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 34, 57-89. [details] 

basis of record Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Publication date The year of description has long been given as 1877, but it is actually 1866. Possibly, this traces back to an error by Döderlein (1930), who had the correct ref, but wrong year. Later this was just copied by others. [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) (from synonym Trichaster elegans Ludwig, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Trichaster elegans Ludwig, 1878)

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