WoRMS taxon details
Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869)
AphiaID: 213301
AphiaID: 213301
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family) > Fromia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Fromia Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fromia ghardaqana Tortonese, 1979 Fromia japonica Perrier, 1881 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Fromia major Koehler, 1895 (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) Linckia milleporella von Martens, 1866 (Synonym) Scytaster monilis Perrier, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] from synonym: Clark, H.L. (1921). The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait: its composition and its origin. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institute 10: 1-218. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fisher, W.K. (1919). Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3(100): 1-547. 156 pls. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Palau Islands [details] Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Samoa (Clark, 1954); East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (andamans, Lakshadweep); East Indies South China Sea, Philippines and South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1996). Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, also Indo-west-central Pacific and Red Sea, depth range 0-40 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Ambon (as Amboina) Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213301 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869). 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=213301 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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