Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher 1917
Authors/Creators
- 1. SNSB - Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstr. 21, D- 81247 München, Germany. E-mail: haszprunar @ snsb. de Dept. Biology II and GeoBio-Center of LMU Munich, Germany
Description
Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917
Original source. Fisher (1917): p. 92.
http://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofbio30biol#page/92/mode/1up
Nomenclatural status. Available name.
Type material. Holotype (United States National Museum; nr. 37,027).
Type locality. Sirun Island near Siasi, Sulu Archipelago, southwestern Philippines.
Remarks. (1) A detailed morphological redescription was provided by Fisher (1919: 442–443, pls. 117, 118, 131). The holotype has been figured by Birkeland & Lucas (1990: 15, fig. 5C,D).
(2) Morphology, molecular data (Yasuda et al. 2006; Vogler et al. 2008, 2012), and distinct autecology (these starfish are not a coral pest) clearly support separation of A. brevispinus from the A. planci group, although members of the two species groups may interbreed (Lucas & Jones 1976).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fisher
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Acanthasteridae
- Genus
- Acanthaster
- Species
- brevispinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher, 1917 sec. Haszprunar & Spies, 2014
References
- Fisher, W. K. (1917) New starfishes from the Philippines and Celebes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 30, 89 - 93. Available from: https: // archive. org / stream / proceedingsofbio 30 biol # page / 88 / mode / 2 up (accessed 4 July 2014)
- Fisher, W. K. (1919) Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 100 (3), xii (12) + 712 pp., 156 pls. Available from: http: // archive. org / stream / bulletinunitedst 10031919 unit # page / n 5 / mode / 2 up (accessed 4 July 2014)
- Birkeland, C. & Lucas, J. S. (1990) Acanthaster planci: Major Management Problem of Coral Reefs. CRC Press, United States, 267 pp. Available from: http: // books. google. de / books? id = Z 57 rozbkLTAC & printsec = frontcover & hl = de & source = gbs _ ge _ summary _ r & cad = 0 # v = onepage & q & f = false (accessed 4 July 2014) [Many pages are not shown, but the taxonomic part on pages 13 - 19 is available]
- Yasuda, N., Hamaguchi, M., Sasaki, M., Nagai, S., Saba, M. & Nadaoka, K. (2006) Complete mitochondrial genome sequences for crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci and Acanthaster brevispinus. BMC Genomics, 7 (17), 10 pp.
- Vogler, C., Benzie, J. A. H., Lessios, H., Barber, P. & Worheide, G. (2008) A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish. Biology Letters, 4 (6), 696 - 699. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1098 / rsbl. 2008.0454
- Vogler, C., Benzie, J. A. H., Barber, P. H., Erdmann, M. V., Ambariyanto, Sheppard, C., Tenggardjaja, K., Gerard, K. & Worheide, G. (2012) Phylogeography of the Crown-of-Thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean. PLoS ONE, 7 (8), e 43499. [10 pp.] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0043499
- Lucas, J. S. & Jones, M. M. (1976) Hybrid crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci X A. brevispinus) reared to maturity in the laboratory. Nature, 263 (5576), 409 - 412. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1038 / 263409 a 0