Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) - Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876

Deep-Sea taxon details

Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876

AphiaID

123250 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123250)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Leptychaster kerguelenensis E. A. Smith, 1876

Parent

Astropectinidae Gray, 1840

Synonymised names

Leptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905) · alternative representation

Parastropecten Ludwig, 1905 · unaccepted (Subgenus according to Fisher (1940).)

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Species Leptychaster anomalus Fisher, 1906
Species Leptychaster arcticus (M. Sars, 1851)
Species Leptychaster flexuosus (Koehler, 1920)
Species Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905)
Species Leptychaster kerguelenensis E. A. Smith, 1876
Species Leptychaster magnificus (Koehler, 1912)
Species Leptychaster pacificus Fisher, 1906
Species Leptychaster accrescens (Koehler, 1920) accepted as Macroptychaster accrescens (Koehler, 1920) (synonym)
Subgenus Leptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876
1. Species Leptychaster (Parastropecten) inermis (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Smith, E. A. (1876). Descriptions of species of Asteridae and Ophiuridae from Kerguelen Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4th series,vol.17: 105-113., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19267007
page(s): 110 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123250 on 2024-05-08

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123250 on 2024-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2006-04-26 17:33:24Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-10-15 05:25:22Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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original description Smith, E. A. (1876). Descriptions of species of Asteridae and Ophiuridae from Kerguelen Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4th series,vol.17: 105-113., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19267007
page(s): 110 [details]

original description (of Parastropecten Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803 [details]

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Hansson, H. (2004). North East Atlantic Taxa (NEAT): Nematoda. Internet pdf Ed. Aug 1998., available online at http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/taxa.html [details] Available for editors