You selected Culcita schmideliana africana Döderlein, 1896. This is a synonym for:
| Accepted scientific name: |
| Culcita schmideliana (Retzius, 1805) (accepted name) |
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| Synonyms: |
| Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816 (synonym) |
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| Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805 (synonym) |
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| Culcita schmideliana africana Döderlein, 1896 (synonym) |
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| Goniodiscus studeri deLoriol, 1885 (synonym) |
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| Classification: |
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Animalia |
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| Phylum |
Echinodermata |
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| Class |
Asteroidea |
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Valvatida |
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| Family |
Oreasteridae |
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| Genus |
Culcita |
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| Distribution: |
Seychelles; Mozambique; West Indian Ocean; Mascarene Basin; Eastern Africa & Madagascar; Somalia; Kenya; Aldabra; Mozambique; Red Sea; Tanzania; Madagascar; Tanzania; Mozambique; Madagascar; Seychelles; Aldabra; Madagascar; Chagos; Mozambique; Seychelles; Aldabra; Chagos; Red Sea; West Indian Ocean; Madagascar; Aldabra; Mozambique; Somalia; Mozambique; Mozambique |
| Additional data: |
Type locality: Type locality: unknown ("Magellan Sea"). Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Description: Colour in life: dark grey background with small irregular pink patches mostly adjacent to black tubercles, madreporite some shade of orange being the same colour as the intertubercular areas at the arm tips.
Often with carapid fish commensal in stomach, sometimes with polynoid Gastrolepidia clavigera Schmarda, 1861 and usually with commensal shrimp Periclimenes soror Nobili (Palamonidae) (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: in algae (Tortonese, 1951).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area and Ceylon (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991).
General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); western and central Indian Ocean, including Ceylon (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indian Ocean, depth range 0-92 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
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| Source database: |
WoRMS Asteroidea, Dec 2010 |
| Latest taxonomic scrutiny: |
Mah C., 07-Dec-2008 |
| Online resource: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212295
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| CoL taxon LSID: |
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