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Heliaster helianthus

Authors/Creators

  • 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)

Description

helianthus Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

(Fig. 17)

Asterias helianthus Lamarck, 1816: 558.

Heliaster helianthus – Clark in Clark & Mah 2001: 307.

CURRENT STATUS. — Heliaster helianthus (Lamarck, 1816).

REMARK

Lamarck only refered to Bruguière’s (1791: pl. 108-109) drawings when describing the species. He gave no localities though one could expect the drawn individual came from Chilean coast. Bruguière’s material could not be found in the MNHN.

Notes

Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2021, The asteroid species of Lamarck (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), pp. 213-252 in Zoosystema 43 (13) on page 230, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a13, http://zenodo.org/record/4768141

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lamarck
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Forcipulatida
Family
Heliasteridae
Genus
Heliaster
Species
helianthus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Heliaster helianthus (Lamarck, 1816) sec. Jangoux, 2021

References

  • LAMARCK J. B. DE 1816. - Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres, Tome 2. Paris, Verdiere: 547 - 568. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13299321
  • 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. Balkema, Rotterdam: 229 - 347.
  • BRUGUIERE J. G. 1791. - Helminthology [y compris les zoophytes echinodermes]. Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois Regnes de la Nature […], 1. Pancoucke, Paris, 189 pl. [The asteroid figured by Bruguiere were identified by Bory de Saint Vincent in 1827 in an appendix of Bruguiere's Tableau.]