clavigera Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

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Asterias clavigera Lamarck, 1816: 562 .

Mithrodia clavigera – Clark 1993: 324.

CURRENT STATUS. — Mithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mauritius • MNHN-IE-2014-71: 2 syntypes; Baudin expedition (1800-1804); Péron and Lesueur leg .

DISTRIBUTION. — Widely distributed in the tropical Indo-West Pacific; a few records in tropical Atlantic (Central America).

REMARK

Though the species was collected by Péron and Lesueur during the Baudin expedition, no drawings of this species could be found in the Lesueur collection at Le Havre Museum.