Peruvian Register of Marine Species
PeRMS source details
Astropecten Gray, 1840 (additional source)
Dytaster Sladen, 1889 (basis of record)
Eremicaster Fisher, 1905 (basis of record)
Eremicaster crassus (Sladen, 1883) (basis of record)
Eremicaster vicinus Ludwig, 1907 (basis of record)
Luidia Forbes, 1839 (additional source)
Luidiidae Sladen, 1889 (additional source)
Paxillosida (basis of record)
Pectinaster Perrier, 1885 (additional source)
Porcellanaster Wyville Thomson, 1878 (additional source)
Porcellanaster ceruleus Wyville Thomson, 1878 (additional source)
Porcellanasteridae Sladen, 1883 (additional source)
Styracaster Sladen, 1883 (additional source)
Tethyaster Sladen, 1889 (additional source)
Thoracaster Sladen, 1883 (additional source)
Thoracaster cylindratus Sladen, 1883 (additional source)
Species does not occur in the western Indian Ocean (Aziz (1986) cited in Walenkamp (1990)). Also distributed in ... [details]
Distribution: western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Also distributed in Persian Gulf (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Distribution: Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Distribution: Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Distribution: Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Also reported from St Helena, Gambia-Congo (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976 <554>) [details]
Distribution: Western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Distribution: Indian Ocean west of Sri Lanka (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Distribution: various parts of the Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Referred to Dytaster (Astropectinidae) by Perrier (1884) so becoming a homonym of Dytaster insignis (Perrier, 1884) ... [details]
Type species: Asterias aranciana Linnaeus 1758, by subsequent designation by Fisher, 1908 (A.M. Clark, 1989). In ... [details]
According to A.M. Clark (1989: 309): "Just sufficient indication to validate" [details]
A.M. Clark (1989: 312) indicates that there is "Just sufficient indication to validate". [details]
Type species: Porcellanaster (Eremicaster) tenebrarius Fisher, 1905 (=Eremicaster crassus (Sladen 1883)). [details]
Type species: Luidia fragilissima Forbes, 1839 (=Asterias ciliaris Philippi, 1837) by original designation (Rowe & ... [details]
Type species: Pectinidiscus annae Ludwig in Chun, 1900. [details]
Type species: Persephonaster croceus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 by subsequent designation by Fisher (1905). [details]
Syntypes in Natural History Museum, London (England) 1890.5.7.118 (3 specimens), 1890.5.7.119 (2 specimens) and ... [details]
Type species: Sidonaster vaneyi Koehler, 1909 by subsequent designation by Madsen (1961). [details]
Type species: Thoracaster cylindratus Sladen, 1883 by monotypy. [details]
Misspelled as "Luidia singapurensis" in A.M. Clark (1989). pg. 248 [details]
P. caeruleusSladen 1883 and H.E.S. Clark 1970 (without dipthong) are an unjustified emendment of spelling. ... [details]
Raised to genus by Fell (1963) but not adopted by subsequent workers. Not accepted even as subgenus. [details]
A synonym of A. cingulatus Sladen 1883 according to Doderlein (1917) but a valid species accoridng to Jangoux ... [details]
This name was emended from Leptychaster Smith, 1876, with type species L. kerguelenensis Smith 1876, but emendment ... [details]
A.M. Clark (1989: 296) considered that even isolation of the genus Lethmaster to a subfamily was unjustified. ... [details]
According to A.M. Clark (1989). Type lost or genus and species based only on Pl. 8, Fig. 7a,b. of Seba 1758; probably ... [details]
Must be suppressed in order to retain the better known Craspidaster hesperus according to A.M. Clark (1989). [details]
Pararchasterinae is invalidated by the synonymy of the generic name Pararchaster Sladen, 1889 with Benthopecten ... [details]
The older family group-name Mimasteridae is invalid since Mimaster Sladen, 1882 is a junior synonym of ... [details]
A NOMEN NUDUM with 'bare indication' of validity. But subsequent synonymy with Plutonaster notatus Sladen, 1889 ... [details]
unknown but probably off Natal or Mozambique; only one specimen known. [details]
near Crozet Is, Southern Ocean, 2926m [details]
off East Africa, western Indian Ocean, 183-638 m. (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Subspecific name valid since not contemporaneously included in Persephonaster with P. brevispinus (Sladen, 1883, ... [details]