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Scytaster muelleri Duchassaing 1850
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
muelleri nomen dubium, Scytaster
TYPE MATERIAL. — West Indies • 3 syntypes; Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas; Michelin leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-469.
REMARKS
The three specimens from St Thomas (Virgin Islands) of the MNHN collection are considered type specimens of Scytaster muelleri, a species presumably described by Duchassaing (1850). Yet neither this publication nor any other Duchassaing’s publications include the description of a S. muelleri species which, consequently, should be considered a long-lasting nomen dubium. The MNHN syntypes of Scytaster muelleri belong to the species Ophidiaster guildingi.
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 301, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Scytaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Duchassaing
- Species
- muelleri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scytaster muelleri Duchassaing, 1850 sec. Jangoux, 2022
References
- DUCHASSAING DE FONTBRESSIN E. P. 1850. - Animaux radiaires des Antilles. Plon, Paris, 33 p. https: // gallica. bnf. fr / ark: / 12148 / bpt 6 k 6524263 d