Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck 1816)

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.