cylindrica Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

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Asterias cylindrica Lamarck, 1816: 567 .

Dactylosaster cylindricus – Clark 1993: 329.

CURRENT STATUS. — Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mauritius • MNHN-IE-2014-471; holotype; Baudin expedition (1800-1804); Péron and Lesueur leg. • MHNH: Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74014; Baudin expedition .

DISTRIBUTION. — The species is found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific.

REMARK

According to Perrier (1869; 1875), the two individuals collected by Péron and Lesueur in Mauritius in 1803 belong to two species that differ, among other characters, by the presence ( D. cylindricus) or absence of enlarged granules on the central part of abactinal plates. He created the species Ophidiaster purpureus Perrier, 1869 (see further under that species) to accommodate the second individual.