The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris
Author
Jangoux, Michel
Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be
jangoux@telenet.be
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Zoosystema
2022
2022-06-03
44
11
259
334
journal article
71620
10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11
83dc5b45-5596-4a84-ab44-8b2f4d777110
1638-9387
6616817
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851
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.