Meridiastra calcar ( Lamarck, 1816 )

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 : 272

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6639796
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scientific name	Meridiastra calcar ( Lamarck, 1816 )
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calcar var. octogona Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

Asterias calcar var. octogona Lamarck, 1816: 557 . — Jangoux 2021: 215.

Meridiastra calcar View in CoL ‒ O’Loughlin & Waters 2004: 3.

CURRENT STATUS. — Meridiastra calcar ( Lamarck, 1816) View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Australia • holotype. King George Sound ( Albany ); Baudin expedition; 1800-1804; Péron & Lesueur leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-248 .

REMARKS

Photographs and drawings of A. calcar var. octogona holotype are presented in Jangoux (2021: 219, fig. 4).

A. calcar var. octogona holotype was not recognized by Müller & Troschel (1842: 43) who described it as one of the type specimens of a new species ( Asteriscus australis ).