WoRMS taxon details
Schizaster gibberulus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847
513540 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513540)
accepted
Species
Brisaster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847) · unaccepted (transferred to Schizaster)
Paraster (Schizaster) gibberulus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 · unaccepted (transferred to Schizaster)
Paraster erythraeus Tortonese, 1932 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Paraster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847) · unaccepted (transferred to Schizaster)
Periaster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847) · unaccepted (transferred to Schizaster)
Schizaster alternans Lambert, 1923 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Schizaster bennacensis Lambert, 1923 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Agassiz, L. & Desor, P. J. E. 1847b. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres, et des familles d'échinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 8, 5-35, 355-380., available online at https://archive.org/stream/annalesdesscienc47pari#page/n7/mode/2up
page(s): 22 [details]
page(s): 22 [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Schizaster gibberulus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513540 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Agassiz, L. & Desor, P. J. E. 1847b. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres, et des familles d'échinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 8, 5-35, 355-380., available online at https://archive.org/stream/annalesdesscienc47pari#page/n7/mode/2up
page(s): 22 [details]
original description (of Schizaster alternans Lambert, 1923) Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube. 85: 13-55, 1 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57204048/f13.image
page(s): 46-49; pl. 1: figs 4-7 [details]
original description (of Paraster erythraeus Tortonese, 1932) Tortonese, E. (1932). Nuova specie di Echinoide del Mar Rosso (Paraster erythraeus n. sp.). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino. Serie 3 42, 1-6.
page(s): 1-6; figs 1-7 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Schizaster bennacensis Lambert, 1923) Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube. 85: 13-55, 1 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57204048/f13.image
page(s): 47 [footnote 1]; note: refers to a figure in Savigny 1826 [details]
page(s): 22 [details]
original description (of Schizaster alternans Lambert, 1923) Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube. 85: 13-55, 1 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57204048/f13.image
page(s): 46-49; pl. 1: figs 4-7 [details]
original description (of Paraster erythraeus Tortonese, 1932) Tortonese, E. (1932). Nuova specie di Echinoide del Mar Rosso (Paraster erythraeus n. sp.). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino. Serie 3 42, 1-6.
page(s): 1-6; figs 1-7 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Schizaster bennacensis Lambert, 1923) Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts du département de l'Aube. 85: 13-55, 1 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57204048/f13.image
page(s): 47 [footnote 1]; note: refers to a figure in Savigny 1826 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Mortensen, T. (1951). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, 593 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 218-221 [details]
page(s): 218-221 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
- Unreviewed
- Madagascar
- Red Sea
- (no group)
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Authority Agassiz & Desor (1847b: p. 22) refer to an earlier work of Audoin (1809), by citing his plate "Descript. Egypt. Zool. Pl. 7, fig. 6". The name Schizaster gibberulus, however, is first used in Agassiz & Desor. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Paraster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Schizaster alternans LAMBERT, 1923; Holotype; F.J00888) (from synonym Schizaster alternans Lambert, 1923)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (3 records) (from synonym Paraster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Schizaster alternans LAMBERT, 1923; Holotype; F.J00888) (from synonym Schizaster alternans Lambert, 1923)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (3 records) (from synonym Paraster gibberulus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847))
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