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Echinaster purpureus Perrier 1869
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
gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842, Echinaster
Echinaster gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842: 25.
Othilia purpureus Gray, 1840: 282, n. syn.
CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Unknown origin • 1 syntype;MNHN-IE-2017-1424.
REMARK
E. gracilis inhabits Indian Seas according to Dujardin & Hupé (1862).
The species shares all the characteristics of the common Indian Ocean species Echinaster purpureus, having a reticulated skeleton and abactinal plates arranged in longitudinal series.
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 pages 287-288, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echinasteridae
- Genus
- Echinaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Spinulosida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Perrier
- Species
- purpureus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echinaster purpureus Perrier, 1869 sec. Jangoux, 2022
References
- MULLER J. & TROSCHEL H. 1842. - System der Asteriden. Braunschweig, 134 p.
- DUJARDIN F. & HUPE H. 1862. - Histoire naturelle des zoophytes echinodermes. Librairie encyclopedique De Roret, Paris, 625 p. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10122