mammosus Perrier, 1869, Oreaster

Oreaster mammosus Perrier, 1869: 78; 1875: 244.

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

CURRENT STATUS. — Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830) .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Zanzibar • 1 syntype; Rousseau leg.; 1841; MNHN-IE-2014-326 • 1 syntype, same as for preceding;MNHN- IE-2014-396 • 1 syntype, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-393.

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.