Astrostole platei

Astrostole platei

Astrostole platei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
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: Forcipulatida

Familia: Asteriidae
Genus: Astrostole
Species: Astrostole platei

Name

Astrostole platei (Meissner, 1896) Fisher, 1923

• Original combination: Asterias (Coscinasterias) platei Meissner, 1896
• Type locality: Juan Fernández Islands
• Holotype: "Mus. Berol. Echinod. No. 3746."

Synonymy

• Asterias (Coscinasterias) platei Meissner, 1896
• Asterias (Polyasterias) fernandensis Meissner, 1896

Cosmasterias fernandensis (Meissner, 1896)

Type locality: Juan Fernández Islands

Holotype: "Mus. Berol. Echinod. No. 3747."

• Stylasterias paschae H.L. Clark, 1920

Astrostole paschae (H.L. Clark, 1920)

Synonymised by Mah (2021)

Type locality: Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean

Holotype: USNM E703 [1]

References

Primary references

• Fisher, W.K. 1923a. XXVIII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(68): 247-258. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632942 Reference page.  [recombination of Astrostole platei p. 255]
• Meissner, M. 1896. Die von Herrn Dr. L. Plate aus Chile und Feuerland heimgebrachten See-Sterne. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 62(1): 91–108. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Asterias (Coscinasterias) platei p. 103–104] [original description of Asterias (Polyasterias) fernandensis p. 104]

Additional references

• Mah, C.L. 2021. The East Pacific/South Pacific Boundary: New taxa and occurrences from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Caledonia and adjacent regions. Zootaxa. 4980(3): 401–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.3.1 Reference page.  [as Astrostole platei p. 404–405]