original description
Milne-Edwards, A. (1882). Rapport sur les Travaux de la Commission chargée par M. le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique d'étudier la faune sous-marine dans les grandes profondeurs de la Méditerranée et de l'Océan Atlantique. <em>Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires.</em> 9(3): 1-59., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36108810
page(s): 47; note: Announcement of species..but enough for full description. More thorough account in Perrier (1894) [details] 
original description
Perrier, E. (1894). Stellérides. Expéditions Scientifique <i>Travailleur</i> et du <i>Talisman</i>. 3:1-431, 26 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44802953
page(s): 159 [details]
basis of record
Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 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
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Synonymy Position uncertain according to Sladen (1889); holotype with R= only 5.0 mm; treated as synonym of K. hispidus Thomson, 1873 by Downey in Clark & Downey (1992). [details]
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