Astropecten vappa Müller & Troschel 1843
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:987FAD00-32A7-4E38-AFAD-6EAC8D808FB2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14045846 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF87BF-2625-5D68-61C4-BD6BFB4C41D5 |
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Astropecten vappa Müller & Troschel 1843 |
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Astropecten vappa Müller & Troschel 1843 View in CoL
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Comments
A species with a full series of single, prominent, conical spines present on each superomarginal plate, lacking the two prominent interradial spines and the absent spines on the post-interradial plates.
Liao & Clark (1995) show this species as present in the Hong Kong region. A recent account of this species was presented by Marsh & Fromont (2020).
Occurrence/Distribution
Hong Kong, 3 m.
Outside Hong Kong. Widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific. Southern China region, Taiwan, southern Japan, Sri Lanka to Indonesia, the Philippines, all coasts in Australia, 0–128 m. ( Marsh & Fromont 2020).
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