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Asteroidea name details
Echinaster sepositus
(Retzius, 1783)
AphiaID
241001
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:241001)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asterozoa
Asteroidea
Ambuloasteroidea
Neoasteroidea
Spinulosacea
Spinulosida
Echinasteridae
Echinaster
Echinaster sepositus
Status
alternative representation
Accepted name
Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus
(Retzius, 1783)
Rank
Species
Parent
Echinaster
Müller & Troschel, 1840
Original name
Asterias seposita
Retzius, 1783
Direct children (1)
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Echinaster sepositus mediterraneus
Marchisio, 1896
accepted as
Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus sepositus
(Retzius, 1783)
(Synonym according to Tortonese (1981).)
Environment
marine,
brackish
,
fresh
,
terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Asterias seposita
Retzius, 1783
)
Retzius, A. J. (1783). Anmärkningar vid. Asteriae genus. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 4, 230-248.
,
available online at
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46983423
page(s): 237
[details]
Taxonomic citation
Mah, C.L. (2021). World Asteroidea Database.
Echinaster sepositus
(Retzius, 1783). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=241001 on 2026-08-04
Taxonomic edit history
Date
action
by
2007-06-08 22:54:21Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-10-26 02:45:00Z
changed
Mah, Christopher
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Sources (2)
Documented distribution (2)
Attributes (2)
Vernaculars (1)
Links (8)
Images (1)
original description
(of
Asterias seposita
Retzius, 1783
)
Retzius, A. J. (1783). Anmärkningar vid. Asteriae genus. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 4, 230-248.
,
available online at
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46983423
page(s): 237
[details]
basis of record
MarLIN
[details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Language
Name
English
red starfish
[details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (24 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (136 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinaster sepositus)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (50 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Echinaster sepositus
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