Sclerasterias contorta ( Perrier, 1881 )

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 : 277

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scientific name	Sclerasterias contorta ( Perrier, 1881 )
status

Treatment

contorta Perrier, 1881, Asterias View in CoL

Asterias contorta Perrier, 1881: 1 View in CoL ; 1884: 199.

Sclerasterias contorta View in CoL ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 449.

CURRENT STATUS. — Sclerasterias contorta ( Perrier, 1881) View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea • 1 syntype; BLAKE expedition; 1878-1879; MNHN-IE-2014-389 • 1 syntype; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-108.

REMARKS

Perrier (1884) mentions several West Indies localities ( Barbados, St Vincent, Montserrat, Granada, Guadeloupe, Sand-Key, Cariacou). He did not illustrate the species.

Nine syntypes are deposited in the MCZ (MCZ 1204-1207, MCZ 1476, MCZ 1478-1481) ( Clark & Downey, 1992).