Asteroidea taxon details
original description
(of Asterias cylindricus 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): 567 [details]
original description
(of Linckia cylindrica von Martens, 1866) Martens von, E. (1866). Ueber ostasiatische Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 32: 57-88., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7060827 [details]
original description
(of Ophidiaster asperulus Lutken, 1871) Lütken, C. (1871). Fortasatte kritiske og beskrivende Bidrag til Kundskab om Sostjernerne (Asteriderne). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening.</em> 1871: 227-304., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35853627 page(s): 274 [details]
basis of record
Simpson J.J. & R.N.R. Brown (1910). Asteroidea of Portugese East Africa. Proc. R. phys. Soc. Edinburgh 18: 45-60. [details]
additional source
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [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
From other sources
Description Colour in life: the shiny skin uniform burgundy (Sloan et al., 1979).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, South Pacific Is. And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman and Nicobar Is., Bay of Bengal (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Type locality: ?Australia; Lamarck (1816) gives the locality as 'les mers australes' but Perrier (1875) as 'Ile de France' (Mauritius) in Clark & Rowe (1971). [details]
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