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Echinoidea source details

Name

Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.

SourceID

5869

Authors

Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E.

Year

1992

Title

Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall

Suffix

London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.

Type

Publication

IMIS-ID

23889

Bibliographical terms

Abyssal, Deep-Sea
Bathyal, Continental slope
Fauna and Flora, Faunistic inventories, Checklists, Catalogues
Faunistic guides, Identification guides
Systematics, Taxonomy
Zoogeography, Biogeography (generalities), Geographic distribution

Taxonomic term

Asteroidea

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Asterinidae Gray, 1840 (additional source)
Tremaster Verrill, 1879 (additional source)
Valvatida (additional source)

Atlantic Ocean for Asteroidea

Authority

for Asterina phylactica Emson & Crump, 1979

Emson & Crump, 1978 [details]

Distribution

for Eremicaster vicinus Ludwig, 1907

Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details]

Distribution

for Porcellanaster ceruleus Wyville Thomson, 1878

Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details]

Identification

for Ophidiaster lymani (A.H. Clark, 1948)

From Clark & Downey (1992: 270) "The specimens from Cape Cerde and Annobon Islands, Gulf of Guine, identified by ... [details]

Spelling

for Asterias phrygiana Parelius, 1768

Asterias phrygania in Clark, A.M.& Downey, M.E. (1992). [details]

Spelling

for Culcitopsis Verrill, 1914

Culcitopsis in Hansson (1998) North East Atlantic Taxa and in Clark, A.M.& Downey, M.E. (1992) [details]

Status

for Ceramaster grenadensis patagonicus (Sladen, 1889)

Regarded as a subspecies in Clark & Downey (1992) but a full species by A.M. Clark's (1993) checklist. [details]

Synonymy

for Henricia cylindrella (Sladen, 1883)

Madsen (1987) believes that H. abyssalis (Perrier 1894) is a synonym of H. cylindrella.. this has met with ... [details]

Taxonomic remark

for Stellonia hispida (Forbes, 1839)

Stellonia hispida Forbes 1839, suppressed and replaced by Leptasterias muelleri (Sars 1846) see Clark & Downey ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Sphaeriaster björlykkei Dons, 1938

Madsen (pers.comm.) thinks this species could be a decalcified Poraniomorpha tumida (Stuxberg). Placed under ... [details]

Validity

for Asterinopsis Verrill, 1913

The name Asterinopsis is retained because the identity of the type species Asterias penicillaris Lamarck, 1816 is ... [details]