clouei Perrier, 1869, Oreaster

Oreaster clouei Perrier, 1869: 79 .

Protoreaster lincki: Blainville, 1830: 219, n. syn.

CURRENT STATUS. — Protoreaster lincki Blainville, 1830 .

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.