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Astropecten polyacanthus Muller & Troschel 1842

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

polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842, Astropecten

Astropecten polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842: 69, pl. 5, fig. 3a, b. — Clark 1993: 266.

CURRENT STATUS. — Astropecten polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Red Sea • 1 syntype; Botta leg.; 1836; MNHN- IE-2014-460 • 3 syntypes, same as holotype; MNHN-IE-2014-473.

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

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Muller & Troschel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Paxillosida
Family
Astropectinidae
Genus
Astropecten
Species
polyacanthus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Astropecten polyacanthus Muller, 1842 sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • MULLER J. & TROSCHEL H. 1842. - System der Asteriden. Braunschweig, 134 p.
  • 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.