Acanthaster

Acanthaster planci

Acanthaster planci

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida

Familia: Acanthasteridae
Genus: Acanthaster
Species: A. benziei – A. brevispinus – A. mauritiensis – A. planci

Name

Acanthaster Gervais, 1841

Type species: Acanthaster echinites (Ellis & Solander, 1786), by subsequent designation by Fisher (1919: 441).

Synonymy

• Echinaster Gray, 1840 [December]: 281.
  • Junior homonym of Echinaster Müller & Troschel, 1840 [May]: 102.
• Acanthaster Gervais, 1841: 474; — Sladen, 1889: 536–537; — McKnight in H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 182; — Haszprunar & Spies, 2014: 276–277; — Wörheide et al., 2022: 383.
• Echinites Müller & Troschel 1844: 180; — Haszprunar & Spies, 2014: 277–278.
  • Type species: Asterias solaris Schreber, 1793, by monotypy.
  • Junior homonym of Echinites Gesner, 1758 and Echinites Leske, 1778
  • Synonymised by Sladen (1889: 536).

References

• Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1919. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions, vol. 3 . Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 100(3): 1–547. 156 pls. hdl: 10088/21263 BHL Reference page. 
• Gervais, P.. Astérie. Pp. 461–481 in: "Plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi" (eds) (1840-1841) Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différents êtres de la nature, ...; suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. Supplément. Tome I. viii+527 pp., 20 pls. Ch. Pitoit, Paris. Online. Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus) (Continued from p. 184.) Annals and magazine of natural history 6(37): 275–290. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443296 BHL Reference page. 
• Haszprunar, G. & Spies, M. 2014. An integrative approach to the taxonomy of the crown-of-thorns starfish species group (Asteroidea: Acanthaster): A review of names and comparison to recent molecular data. Zootaxa. 3841(2): 271–284. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.2.6 Reference page. 
• Müller, J.P. & Troschel, F.H. 1844. Beschreibung neuer Asteriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 10: 178–185. BHL. Reference page. 
• Sladen, W.P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page. 
• Wörheide, G., Kaltenbacher, E., Cowan, Z.-L. & Haszprunar, G. 2022. A new species of crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster benziei sp. nov. (Valvatida: Acanthasteridae), from the Red Sea. Zootaxa. 5209(3): 379–393. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5209.3.7 . Reference page.