The World Asteroidea Database - Echinaster Gray, 1840

Asteroidea name details

Echinaster Gray, 1840

AphiaID

381008 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:381008)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted Name

Acanthaster Gervais, 1841

Rank

Genus

Parent

Echinasteridae Verrill, 1867

Direct children (1)

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Species Echinaster ellisi Gray, 1840 accepted as Acanthaster ellisi (Gray, 1840) accepted as Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 281 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2021). World Asteroidea Database. Echinaster Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=381008 on 2024-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-01-22 02:48:17Z

created

Mah, Christopher

[taxonomic tree]

original description Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 281 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To ITIS