Protoreaster lincki Blainville, 1830

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 : 276

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.6638844
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scientific name	Protoreaster lincki Blainville, 1830
status

Treatment

clouei Perrier, 1869, Oreaster

Oreaster clouei Perrier, 1869: 79 View in CoL .

Protoreaster lincki: Blainville, 1830: 219 View in CoL , n. syn.

CURRENT STATUS. — Protoreaster lincki Blainville, 1830 View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Madagascar • holotype; Diego Suarez; Captain Cloué leg.; 1847; MNHN-IE-2014-476 .

REMARK

Perrier’s type specimen shares all the characteristics of the common west Indian Ocean species Protoreaster lincki having laterally projecting red tipped spines on some of the distal supero-marginal plates.