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WoRMS taxon detailsMithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816)
178200 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178200)
accepted
Species
Asterias clavigera Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted
Echinaster echinulatus (Muller & Troschel, 1842) · unaccepted (Synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Heresaster papillosus Michelin, 1844 · unaccepted (synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Mithrodia echinulatus (Müller & Troschel, 1842) · unaccepted (synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Mithrodia spinulosa Gray, 1840 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Sladen (1889))
Mithrodia victoriae Bell, 1882 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Pope & Rowe (1977))
Ophidiaster echinulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921))
marine,
recent only
(of Asterias clavigera Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de. (1816). Asterie. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres.</em> 2: 547-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299321
page(s): 562 [details]
Description Colour in life: pale flesh tone with large brick-red patches, especially proximally, arm tips black (Sloan et al., 1979).
Description Colour in life: pale flesh tone with large brick-red patches, especially proximally, arm tips black (Sloan et al., 1979). Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: bentic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Mithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178200 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Asterias clavigera Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de. (1816). Asterie. <em>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres.</em> 2: 547-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299321 page(s): 562 [details] original description (of Mithrodia spinulosa Gray, 1840) Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (<i>Asterias</i>, Linnaeus). <em>Annals of the Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up page(s): 288 [details] original description (of Heresaster papillosus Michelin, 1844) Michelin, H. (1844). Description de quatre Echinides et Stellérides nouvelles, ex-traite d'un catalogue raisonné des Zoophytes , Echinides et Stellérides recueillis par MM. J. Desjardins et Mathieu , à Vile de France (aujourd'hui île Maurice). <em>Revue Zoologique par la Societe Cuvierienne.</em> 7: 173., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2284857 page(s): 173 [details] original description (of Mithrodia victoriae Bell, 1882) Bell, F.J. (1882). 4. Descriptions of new or rare species of Asteroidea in the collection of the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1882: 121-124., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28678447#page/165/mode/1up page(s): 123 [details] original description (of Ophidiaster echinulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842) Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 page(s): 32 [details]  basis of record Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Otheradditional source
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
additional source Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota.</em> Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S. [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Colour in life: pale flesh tone with large brick-red patches, especially proximally, arm tips black (Sloan et al., 1979).Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: bentic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-80 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Mithrodia victoriae Bell, 1882) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mithrodia clavigera) To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (27 records) |
