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Stegnaster wesseli

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

wesseli Perrier, 1875, Asterina

(Fig. 32)

Asterina wesseli Perrier, 1875: 311.

Stegnaster wesseli ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 194.

CURRENT STATUS. — Stegnaster wesseli (Perrier, 1875).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea • holotype; Barbados; Lütken leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-104

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Perrier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Valvatida
Family
Asterinidae
Genus
Stegnaster
Species
wesseli
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Stegnaster wesseli (Perrier, 1875) sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • PERRIER E. 1875. - Revision de la Collection de Stellerides du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Reinwald, Paris, 384 p., (also published in: Archives de Zoologie experimentale et generale vol. 4 [1875]: 263 - 449, et vol. 5 [1876]: 1 - 104).
  • CLARK A. M. & DOWNEY M. E. 1992. - Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 565 p.