MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816)

WoRMS taxon details

Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816)

AphiaID

124101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124101)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophidiaster L. Agassiz, 1836

Original name

Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816

Synonymised names

Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ophidiaster aurantius Gray, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym according to Muller and...)

synonym according to Muller and Troschel (1842)

Ophidiaster canariensis Greeff, 1872 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Ludwig (1897))

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de. (1816). Asterie. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. 2: 547-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299321
page(s): 567 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124101 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2007-06-08 22:54:21Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-12-25 15:21:38Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de. (1816). Asterie. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. 2: 547-568., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13299321
page(s): 567 [details]

original description (of Ophidiaster aurantius Gray, 1840) Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 284 [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]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Albanian	ylli krahëgjarpëryll deti i purpur	[details]
Catalan	estrella porprada	[details]
Italian	stella serpente	[details]
Spanish	estrella púrpura	[details]

To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Ophidiaster aurantius Gray, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ophidiaster canariensis Greeff, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophidiaster ophidianus)
To GenBank (174 nucleotides; 74 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Ophidiaster canariensis Greeff, 1872)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Asterias ophidiana Lamarck, 1816)
To PESI (from synonym Ophidiaster aurantius Gray, 1840)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (25 records)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

Ophidiaster ophidianus