Asterias calcitrapa, Lamarck, 1816

Jangoux, Michel, 2021, The asteroid species of Lamarck (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), Zoosystema 43 (13), pp. 213-252 : 221

calcitrapa var. 1 Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

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Asterias calcitrapa Lamarck, 1816: 563 .

Astropecten calcitrapa – Clark 1989: 254.

CURRENT STATUS. — Asterias calcitrapa var. 1 is newly synonymized here with Bollonaster pectinatus (Sladen, 1883) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MHNH; Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74012; Baudin expedition; Péron and Lesueur leg .

DISTRIBUTION. — The species occurs in temperate water of southern Australia and around Tasmania.

REMARKS

Péron and Lesueur’s material of A. calcitrapa var. 1 could not be found in the MNHN.

Lesueur detailed drawings of both arm cross section and arm actinal surface ( Fig. 6C and D ) allow to identify the species as Bollonaster pectinatus .

Figures

FIG. 6. — Asterias calcitrapa var. 1 Lamarck, 1816: A, B, abactinal (A) and actinal (B) surfaces; C, arm cross-section showing arrangement of skeletal plates; D, ambulacral armament and inferomarginal plates (Lesueur collection 74012, details, courtesy of MHNH).