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Asterias rubens Linnaeus 1755

  • 1. Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be

Description

fabricii Perrier, 1875 Asterias

Asterias fabricii Perrier, 1875: 56.

Asterias rubens ‒ Clark in Clark & Mah 2001: 255.

CURRENT STATUS. — Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1755.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Canada • holotype; Labrador coast; Alexander Agassiz leg.; 1864; MNHN-IE-2014-427.

Notes

Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 283, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Asteriidae
Genus
Asterias
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MNHN-IE-2014-427
Order
Forcipulatida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
rubens
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1755 sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • PERRIER E. 1875. - Revision de la Collection de Stellerides du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Reinwald, Paris, 384 p., (also published in: Archives de Zoologie experimentale et generale vol. 4 [1875]: 263 - 449, et vol. 5 [1876]: 1 - 104).
  • CLARK A. M. & MAH CH. 2001. - An index of recent Asteroidea. Part 4: Forcipulata and Brisingida, in JANGOUX M. & LAWRENCE J. M. (eds) Echinoderm Studies, vol. 6: 229 - 347. Balkema, Rotterdam.