The World Asteroidea Database - Tegulaster alba (H.L. Clark, 1938)

Asteroidea taxon details

Tegulaster alba (H.L. Clark, 1938)

AphiaID

459567 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:459567)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tegulaster Livingstone, 1933

Original name

Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938

Synonymised names

Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938) Clark, H. L. (1938). Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoöology at Harvard College.</em> 55: 1-597, 28 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4374780
page(s): 150 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Tegulaster alba (H.L. Clark, 1938). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459567 on 2026-09-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-02-27 02:02:44Z

created

Mah, Christopher

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original description (of Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938) Clark, H. L. (1938). Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoöology at Harvard College.</em> 55: 1-597, 28 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4374780
page(s): 150 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Paratype (of Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938) SAMA K718, geounit Lord Howe Island [details]

Paratype (of Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938) WAM Z1702 (old number 95-39) [details]

Paratype (of Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938) WAM Z1703 (old number 96-39) [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Asterina alba H.L. Clark, 1938)