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Acanthaster planci

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) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be

Description

mauritiensis Loriol, 1885, Acanthaster

Acanthaster mauritiensis Loriol, 1885: 6, pl. 12, figs 1-3.

Acanthaster planci ‒ Clark 1993: 322.

CURRENT STATUS. — Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Mauritius • 1 syntype; MNHN-IE-2014-534

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 298, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Valvatida
Family
Acanthasteridae
Genus
Acanthaster
Species
planci
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • LORIOL P. DE 1885. - Catalogue raisonne des echinodermes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. V. de Robillard. II Stellerides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve 29: 1 - 84.
  • CLARK A. M. 1993. - An index of recent Asteroidea. Part 2: Valvatida, in JANGOUX M. & LAWRENCE J. M. (eds) Echinoderm Studies, vol. 4, Balkema, Rotterdam: 187 - 366.