MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus (Lamarck, 1816)

WoRMS taxon details

Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus (Lamarck, 1816)

Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus from Brazil

AphiaID

178748 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178748)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Echinaster (Othilia) Gray, 1840 represented as Echinaster Müller & Troschel, 1840

Original name

Asterias echinophora Lamarck, 1816

Synonymised names

Asterias echinophora Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted

Asterias spinosa Bruzelius, 1805 · unaccepted (Homonym)

Echinaster (Othilia) crassispina Verrill, 1868 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Verrill (1915))

Othilia spinosa (Bruzelius, 1805) · unaccepted (Previous combination)

Stellonia spinosa (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (Invalid Synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Asterias echinophora 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): 560 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178748 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-08-05 07:22:50Z

created

Aracina, Claudia

2008-10-26 05:06:00Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Asterias echinophora 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): 560 [details]

original description (of Asterias spinosa Bruzelius, 1805) Bruzelius, N. (1805). Dissertatio sistens species cognitas asteriarum, quamr. sub praesidio A.J. Retzii. exhibet N. Bruzelius. 1-37. Lundae (formerly know as Retzius, R.J.)., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN634528459
page(s): 18 [details]

original description (of Echinaster (Othilia) crassispina Verrill, 1868) Verrill, A.E. (1868). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 4. Notice of the corals and Echinoderms collected by Prof. C.F. Hartt, at the Abrolhos Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, 1867. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1 (2): 351-376., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380325
page(s): 368 [details]

basis of record Clark, A. M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 5: 183-250. (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 Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Asterias spinosa Bruzelius, 1805)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Asterias echinophora Lamarck, 1816)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (24 records)

From editor or global species database

Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus from Brazil