WoRMS taxon details
Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 178210
AphiaID: 178210
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Oreaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias gigas Linnaeus, 1753 (Synonym (name invalidated by date)) Asterias pentacyphus Retzius, 1805 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Asterias reticulata Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym) Asterias sebae de Blainville, 1830 Oreaster aculeatus (Gray, 1840) (Synonym according to Bell (1884)) Oreaster bermudensis H.L. Clark, 1942 Oreaster gigas Lutken, 1859 (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936) and Madsen (1959)) Oreaster lapidarius Grube, 1857 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Oreaster tuberosus Behn in Mobius, 1859 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Pentaceros aculeatus Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Pentaceros gibbus Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Muller and Troschel (1842)) Pentaceros grandis Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Muller and Troschel (1842)) Pentaceros reticulatus Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (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: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas [details] Belize [details] Cape Frio [details] Cape Hatteras [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Florida [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Guyanas [details] Haiti [details] Honduras [details] Mexico [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178210 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178210 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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