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Echinaster smithi Ludwig 1903
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
smithi Ludwig, 1903, Echinaster
Echinaster smithi Ludwig, 1903: 25, pl. 3, figs 21, 22. — Clark 1996: 226.
CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster smithi Ludwig, 1903.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • holotype; Belgica expedition (1897- 1899); 71°18’S, 82°02’W; 450 m; MNHN-IE-2014-366.
REMARKS
The holotype was considered lost, because it was not found in the collection of the RBINS (Jangoux & Massin 1986).
Ludwig (1903) does not give a complete picture of the species; this was done later by Koehler (1920: 13, pl. 25, figs 8, 9).
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 318, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- MNHN-IE-2014-366
- Scientific name authorship
- Ludwig
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Spinulosida
- Family
- Echinasteridae
- Genus
- Echinaster
- Species
- smithi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echinaster smithi Ludwig, 1903 sec. Jangoux, 2022
References
- LUDWIG H. 1903. - Seesterne. Resultats du Voyage du S. Y. Belgica. (Zool.) 1903: 1 - 72. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2146540
- CLARK A. M. 1996. - An index of recent Asteroidea. Part 3: Velatida and Spinulosida, in JANGOUX M. & LAWRENCE J. M. (eds) Echinoderm Studies, vol. 5: 183 - 250. Balkema, Rotterdam.
- JANGOUX M. & MASSIN C. 1986. - Catalogue commente des types d'echinodermes actuels conserves dans les collections nationales belges. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 56: 83 - 97.
- KOEHLER R. 1920. - Echinodermata, Asteroidea. Scientific Report of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1914 8 (1): 1 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 85380