Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck 1816)

This species is recorded from the eastern Pacific coast of Panama (see Maluf, 1988).

Bell, F.J. (1884). Echinodermata. In: R.W. Coppinger (ed): Report on the Zoological Collections made in the indo-pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-2. London.

Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563.

Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf

Maluf, L. Y. (1988). Composition and distribution of the central eastern Pacific echinoderms. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports, 2, 1– 242.

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Asterias carinifera Lamarck, 1816 (Basyonym)
Asterope carinifera Müller & Troschel, 1842
Gymnasteria biserrata von Martens, 1866 (Synonym according to de Loriol (1885))
Gymnasteria carinifera von Martens, 1866
Gymnasteria inermis Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Perrier (1875))
Gymnasteria spinosa Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Perrier (1875))
Gymnasteria valvulata Perrier, 1875
Gymnasterias carinifera Bell, 1893
Pentaceraster mammillatus Tortonese, 1960

Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck)

Asterias carinifera Lamarck, 1816:556.

Asterope carinifera (Lamarck).—Mueller and Troschel, 1840:104.—H. L. Clark, 1920:33, pl. v: fig. 2.

Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck): Mueller and Troschel, 1840:322; 1842:63.—A. M. Clark, 1967:37.—McKnight, 1968:713. Gymnasterias inermis Gray, 1840:278.

Gymnasterias spinosa Gray, 1840:278.

Gymnasterias carinifera (Lamarck).—deLoriol, 1885:67, pl. 20: figs. 7–10.—Leipoldt, 1895:649, pl. 32: fig. 13.

One specimen of Asteropsis carinifera was collected at Malpelo on a vertical rock wall at 36 meters. It is distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific and the tropical eastern Pacific. This species is apparently attacked by the shrimp Hymenocera (Birkeland, pers. comm.), well known as a predator on Acanthaster plancii, the crown-of-thorns starfish.

Colour in life: pale grey with irregular brown markings, uniformly pale grey below. Some with commensal polynoid Hololepidella nigropuntata (Humphreys, 1981). Also recorded in SE Arabia, Ceylon, east Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, south Pacific Is? And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) (Sastry, 1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-15 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995).