WoRMS taxon details
Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 213177
AphiaID: 213177
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Asteropseidae (Family) > Asteropsis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Asteropsis Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias carinifera Lamarck, 1816 (Basyonym) Asterope carinifera Müller & Troschel, 1842 Gymnasteria biserrata von Martens, 1866 (Synonym according to de Loriol (1885)) Gymnasteria carinifera von Martens, 1866 Gymnasteria inermis Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Gymnasteria spinosa Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Gymnasteria valvulata Perrier, 1875 Gymnasterias carinifera Bell, 1893 Pentaceraster mammillatus Tortonese, 1960 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] basis of record: Bell, F.J. (1884). Echinodermata. In: R.W. Coppinger (ed): Report on the Zoological Collections made in the indo-pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-2. London. [details] basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Martens, E. von (1866). Ueber östasiatiche Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 32:: 57-88; 133-189. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Caledonia [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola oreastriphilus Kossmann, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: pale grey with irregular brown markings, uniformly pale grey below. Some with commensal polynoid Hololepidella nigropuntata (Humphreys, 1981). Also recorded in SE Arabia, Ceylon, east Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, south Pacific Is? And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) (Sastry, 1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-15 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Placed in family Asteropidae in Clark & Rowe (1971). Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213177 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816). 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=213177 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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