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Mediaster pedicellaris

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

pedicellaris Perrier, 1881 Goniodiscus

Goniodiscus pedicellaris Perrier, 1881: 23; 1884: 245, pl. 4, fig. 3.

Mediaster pedicellaris ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 253.

CURRENT STATUS. — Mediaster pedicellaris (Perrier, 1881).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea • 2 paratypes; Saint Vincent; BLAKE expedition; 1878-1879; depth 210 m; MNHN-IE-2014-133 • 1 paratype; Saint Lucia; same as for preceding; depth 276 m; MNHN-IE-2014-135.

REMARK

Holotype in MCZ (MCZ 470) (Clark & Downey 1992).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ
Material sample ID
MCZ 470
Scientific name authorship
Perrier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Valvatida
Family
Goniasteridae
Genus
Mediaster
Species
pedicellaris
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Mediaster pedicellaris (Perrier, 1881) sec. Jangoux, 2022

References

  • PERRIER E. 1881. - Description sommaire des nouvelles especes d'asteries. Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoology 9 (1): 1 - 31. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 6353244
  • PERRIER E. 1884. - Memoire sur les etoiles de mer recueillies dans la mer des Antilles et le golfe du Mexique. Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire naturelles de Paris (2) 6: 127 - 276. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 44579946
  • CLARK A. M. & DOWNEY M. E. 1992. - Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London, 565 p.