WoRMS name details

Asterodiscus elegans Gray, 1847

213110  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213110)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Valvatida (Order)
  10. Asterodiscididae (Family)
  11. Asterodiscus (Genus)
  12. Asterodiscus elegans (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gray, J.E. (1847). Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 72-83., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862856
page(s): 75 [details] 
Description Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971).  
Description Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Asterodiscus elegans Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213110 on 2024-11-21
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 12:31:29Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2008-12-17 01:25:53Z
changed
Mah, Christopher

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original description Gray, J.E. (1847). Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 72-83., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862856
page(s): 75 [details] 

source of synonymy Walenkamp, J.H.C. (1990). Systematics and zoogeography of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Zoologische Verhandelingen 261, Leiden. 86 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]

Remark In family Oreasteridae in Clark & Rowe (1971).
Type locality: Gray gives no locality; Perrier (1875)says that it is from NE China, which seems highly improbable (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Type species of the genus Asterodiscus Gray, 1847 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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