MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891

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Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891

To MNHN Type collection (IE 2014-1604)

AphiaID

123225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123225)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Asteriidae Gray, 1840

Synonymised names

Asterias (Stolasterias) eustyla Sladen, 1889 · unaccepted

Australiaster Fisher, 1923 · unaccepted

Eustolasterias Fisher, 1923 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pedicellaster parvulus Perrier, 1891 · unaccepted

Rumbleaster McKnight, 2006 · unaccepted (synonym)

Triplasterias Engel, Croes & Schroevers, 1960 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Sclerasterias alexandri (Ludwig, 1905)
Species Sclerasterias contorta (Perrier, 1881)
Species Sclerasterias dubia (H.L. Clark, 1909)
Species Sclerasterias eructans (McKnight, 2006)
Species Sclerasterias euplecta (Fisher, 1906)
Species Sclerasterias eustyla (Sladen, 1889)
Species Sclerasterias guernei Perrier, 1891
Species Sclerasterias heteropaes Fisher, 1924
Species Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
Species Sclerasterias mollis (Hutton, 1872)
Species Sclerasterias neglecta (Perrier, 1891)
Species Sclerasterias parvulus (Perrier, 1891)
Species Sclerasterias richardi (Perrier in Milne-Edwards, 1882)
Species Sclerasterias satsumana (Döderlein, 1902)
Species Sclerasterias tanneri (Verrill, 1880)
Species Sclerasterias candicans (Ludwig, 1903) accepted as Notasterias candicans (Ludwig, 1903)
Species Sclerasterias crassa H.L. Clark, 1940 accepted as Sclerasterias alexandri var. crassa H.L. Clark, 1940
Species Sclerasterias hypacantha Fisher, 1928 accepted as Sclerasterias euplecta (Fisher, 1906)
Species Sclerasterias nitida Koehler, 1910 accepted as Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
Species Sclerasterias peregrina Bell in Fisher, 1928 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, MS name, never described-probably Sclerasterias mazophora)
Species Sclerasterias stenactis (H.L. Clark, 1926) accepted as Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Perrier, E. (1891). Stellerides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 4: 258-271., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10114471
page(s): 264 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123225 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2008-10-25 14:18:49Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Perrier, E. (1891). Stellerides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 4: 258-271., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10114471
page(s): 264 [details]

original description (of Eustolasterias Fisher, 1923) Fisher, W.K. (1923).A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidae, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(9): 247-258
page(s): 255 [details]

original description (of Australiaster Fisher, 1923) Fisher, W.K. (1923).A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidae, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(9): 247-258
page(s): 258 [details]

original description (of Rumbleaster McKnight, 2006) McKnight, D. G. (2006). The marine fauna of New Zealand, Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 120: 1-187., available online at http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/NIWAbm120.pdf [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Pedicellaster parvulus Perrier, 1891) Perrier, E. (1891). Stellerides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 4: 258-271., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10114471
page(s): 258 [details]

original description (of Asterias (Stolasterias) eustyla Sladen, 1889) Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 30 (part 51): xlii + 893 pages, 118 plates., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-51/README.htm
page(s): 587 [details]

original description (of Triplasterias Engel, Croes & Schroevers, 1960) Engel, H., Croes, A.F. & Schroevers, W.G.F. (1960). Les asterides recoltees par l'expedition du Navire-Ecole Belge Mercator 1935-1936.A. Les Asterides recoltees sur les cotes orientales de l'Amerique entre la Floride et le Venezuela. Bulletin Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. XXXVI, no. 54: 1-10, 3 plates.
page(s): 6 [details]

basis of record Clark, A. M.; Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]

Other

additional source Fisher, W.K. (1924). The genus Sclerasterias Perrier. Bulletin de Institut Oceanographique, Monaco 414(3): 1-8 [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]

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