Diplasterias brucei
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) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be
Description
brucei Koehler, 1908, Stolasterias
Stolasterias brucei Koehler, 1908a: 569, pl. 5, figs 46, 47.
Diplasterias brucei ‒ Clark in Clark & Mah 2001: 274.
CURRENT STATUS. — Diplasterias brucei (Koehler, 1908).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • 5 syntypes; Scotia Bay (South Orkney Islands); Scottish Antarctic expedition; 1902-1904; MNHN- IE-2014-378.
REMARKS
Koehler’s original description mentions three specimens (Scotia Bay, South Orcads, 18 m). Yet five specimens occur in the MNHN with a single label indicating they are from the type locality.
Various syntypes (15) are housed in the RSM (Ref. 1921. 143.1232) (Smalon et al. 1976).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Asteriidae
- Genus
- Diplasterias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Forcipulatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Koehler
- Species
- brucei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diplasterias brucei (Koehler, 1908) sec. Jangoux, 2022
References
- KOEHLER R. 1908 a. - Description d'une asterie nouvelle (Nepanthia joubini) provenant du cap Saint-Jacques (Cochinchine). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris 14: 232 - 235. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 5031155
- 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.