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Dictyaster xenophilus Wood-Mason & Alcock 1891
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
xenophilus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, Dictyaster
Dictyaster xenophilus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891: 438, pl. 5, figs 8, 9. — Clark 1996: 222.
CURRENT STATUS. — Dictyaster xenophilus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Andaman sea • 1 syntype; Investigator survey; Indian Museum leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-363 • 1 syntype; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-381.
REMARK
The type locality of D. xenophilus (Investigator survey, Andaman Sea, c. 457 m) is the only known locality of the species.
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
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echinasteridae
- Genus
- Dictyaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Spinulosida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Wood-Mason & Alcock
- Species
- xenophilus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dictyaster xenophilus Wood-Mason, 1891 sec. Jangoux, 2022
References
- 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.