Ophiuroidea taxon details

Asterostegus spinigerum (Mortensen, 1933)

1847079 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1847079)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Euryophiurida (Superorder)
  9. Euryalida (Order)
  10. Euryalidae (Family)
  11. Asterostegus (Genus)
  12. Asterostegus spinigerum (Species)
accepted
Species
Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933
Asteroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933) Mortensen, T. (1933). Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening 93.</em> 65: 215-400. [details] 
Type locality contained in Durban  
type locality contained in Durban [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2026). World Ophiuroidea Database. Asterostegus spinigerum (Mortensen, 1933). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1847079 on 2026-09-20
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2025-11-14 12:00:04Z
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Stöhr, Sabine

original description (of Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933) Mortensen, T. (1933). Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening 93.</em> 65: 215-400. [details] 

new combination reference O'Hara, T. D.; Thuy, B. (2025). Seamount ophiuroids from the High Seas of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5718(1): 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5718.1.1
page(s): 12 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Astroceras spinigerum) (from synonym Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Astroceras spinigerum Mortensen, 1933)

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