Asterias calcitrapa, Lamarck, 1816

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

calcitrapa Lamarck, 1816 , Asterias

Asterias calcitrapa Lamarck, 1816: 563 .

REMARK

Lamarck (1816) reported that two varieties of Asterias calcitrapa (varieties 1 and 2) were collected by Péron and Lesueur, presumably in the South Seas. While A. calcitrapa clearly belongs to the astropectinid family, the descriptions given by Lamarck were too vague to allow an identification and the name was considered a nomen dubium ( Döderlein 1917: 183; Clark 1989: 254). However, several drawings of Lesueur represent two astropectinid species that are not uncommon in Australian waters, and we can reasonably suggest they could represent the two varieties of Lamarck’s A. calcitrapa .