MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Culcita Agassiz, 1836

WoRMS taxon details

Culcita Agassiz, 1836

AphiaID

204844 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204844)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Oreasteridae Fisher, 1908

Synonymised names

Goniodiscides Fisher, 1906 · unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher (1919))

Goniodiscus Müller & Troschel, 1842 · unaccepted (Formal designation of type...)

Formal designation of type species G. sebae falls in syn. of C. novaeguineae. This disposes of the name Goniodiscus by synonymy. However many of the species names are referable to Goniasteridae and/or Oreasteridae

Randasia Gray, 1840 · unaccepted

Randasia luzonica Gray, 1840 · unaccepted (An immature Culcita according to...)

An immature Culcita according to Fisher (1919) but by inference, type was not traced.

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Species Culcita coriacea Müller & Troschel, 1842
Species Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Species Culcita schmideliana (Bruzelius, 1805)
Species Culcita acutispinosa Bell, 1883 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae var. acutispinosa Bell, 1883 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 (original combination)
Species Culcita arenosa Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae var. arenosa Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Species Culcita borealis Süssbach & Breckner, 1911 accepted as Culcitopsis borealis (Süssbach & Breckner, 1911) (synonym)
Species Culcita grex Müller & Troschel, 1842 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 (validity doubtful according to Doderlein, (1896))
Species Culcita niassensis Sluiter, 1895 accepted as Choriaster granulatus Lütken, 1869
Species Culcita pentangularis Gray, 1847 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym of C. novaeguineae Mueller & Troschel, 1842 according to Sladen (1889))
Species Culcita plana Hartlaub, 1892 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae var. plana Hartlaub, 1892 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Species Culcita pulverulenta Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Species Culcita veneris Perrier, 1879 accepted as Spoladaster brachyactis (H.L. Clark, 1923) accepted as Spoladaster veneris (Perrier, 1879)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Agassiz, L. (1836). Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel. 1, 168-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10596479
page(s): 192 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Culcita Agassiz, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204844 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-08-04 14:17:36Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-26 07:19:20Z

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Garcia, Maria

2006-07-31 06:57:06Z

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Camba Reu, Cibran

2007-12-22 17:11:25Z

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Mah, Christopher

2014-05-07 18:18:12Z

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Mah, Christopher

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original description Agassiz, L. (1836). Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel. 1, 168-199., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10596479
page(s): 192 [details]

original description (of Goniodiscides Fisher, 1906) Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51691707
page(s): 1070 [details]

original description (of Randasia 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): 278 [details]

original description (of Randasia luzonica 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): 278 [details]

original description (of Goniodiscus Müller & Troschel, 1842) Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. Vieweg: Braunschweig. xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159
page(s): 57 [details]

basis of record Jangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o. Zoologische wetenschappen. 208:1-50. [details]

additional source Kano, Y.T., M. Komatsu and C. Oguro. 1991. Morphological changes of the cushion star, Culcita novaeguineae Mueller and Troschel, during growth pp. 323-326 in Biology of Echinodermata, ed. by Yanagisawa, Yasumasu, Oguro, Suzuki and Motokawa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [details]

additional source Livingstone, A.A. (1932). Notes on some representatives of the asteroid genus Culcita. Australian Zoologist 7(3): 265-273. [details]

additional source Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source 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 Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Remark Type species: Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816 (=Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805) by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details]

Synonymy Culcita borealis is in the synonymy of Chondraster (in part) and Poraniomorpha (Culcitopsis) borealis. [details]

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	マンジュウヒトデ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Culcita)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Culcita)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Goniodiscus) (from synonym Goniodiscus Müller & Troschel, 1842)