Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840), 1869

Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, Zoosystema 44 (11), pp. 259-334 : 278

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6639846

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA8781-FF80-3960-FC1E-F9BFFA79F844

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scientific name

Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840)
status

 

crassus Müller & Troschel, 1842, Echinaster

Echinaster crassus Müller & Troschel, 1842: 23 . — Clark 1996: 223.

Othilia purpureus Gray, 1840: 282 , n. syn.

CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840) View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Unknown origin • holotype; MNHN-IE-2014-279 .

REMARK E. crassus 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Spinulosida

Family

Echinasteridae

Genus

Echinaster

Loc

Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840)

Jangoux, Michel 2022
2022
Loc

Echinaster crassus Müller & Troschel, 1842: 23

CLARK A. M. 1996: 223
MULLER J. & TROSCHEL H. 1842: 23
1842
Loc

Othilia purpureus

GRAY 1840: 282
1840
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