Asterias amurensis

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Starfish . A. amurensis are seastars native to China, Korea, Russia and Japan. They have spread to North America and Australia where they seriously affect the native shellfish population. Where seastar densities are high, most bivalves and other attached or sedentary invertebrates are eliminated.

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -34 meters (0 to -112 feet).Mean = 35.250 meters (115.650 feet), Standard Deviation = 92.270 based on 12 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biome: marine habitats

Biology

Reproduction

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 27-Dec-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Asterias

There are approximately 31 species in this genus:

A. amurensis (Northern Pacific Seastar) · A. arenicola · A. asperulata · A. atlantica · A. austera · A. calcar · A. carinifera · A. enopla · A. exigua · A. forbesi · A. forbesii · A. forreri · A. glacialis · A. hyperborea · A. miniata · A. mollis · A. muelleri · A. muelleri groenlandica · A. ochracea · A. panopla · A. pectinifera · A. polaris · A. rathbuni · A. remondii · A. rollestoni · A. rubens (Starfish) · A. rupicola · A. squamata · A. tanneri · A. tenuispina · A. vulgaris

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Further Reading

• An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1951] ENG url p. 42.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 145, p. 183.
• Biology of the seas of the U.S.S.R. Translated by S. Botcharskaya. New York, Interscience Publishers[1963] ENG url p. 772, p. 907.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 22, p. 24, p. 243, p. 256, p. 342, p. 37, p. 6, p. 8.
• Byrne, M., and Morrice B. Wolf 1997. Introduction of the northern Pacific asteroid Asterias amurensis to Tasmania: reproduction and current distribution. Marine Biology, vol. 127. 673-685.
• D'yakonov, A. M. 1950. Sea Stars (Asteroids) of the USSR Seas. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, no. 34. vi + 183.
• Fauna of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula, by Olaus J. Murie. Invertebrates and fishes collected in the Aleutians, 1936-38, by Victor B. Scheffer. [Washington, Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1959] ENG url p. 373.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: ENG url p. 508.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. ENG url p. 104, p. 112, p. 120, p. 129, p. 159, p. 166, p. 35, p. 43, p. 45, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49, p. 62, p. 78, p. 79, p. 79, p. 81, p. 83, p. 84, p. 88, p. 89, p. 91, p. 91.
• Harriman Alaska series. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914. ENG url p. 194, p. 390.
• Journal of shellfish research. [S.l.: National Shellfisheries Association, 1981- url p. 355.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, ENG url p. 3.
• Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. ENG url p. 565, p. 571, p. 574, p. 575.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. ENG url p. 10, p. 41, p. 42, p. 44, p. 45, p. 48, p. 49, p. 51, p. 53, p. 55, p. 57, p. 58, p. 59, p. 61, p. 62, p. 65, p. 66, p. 67, p. 68, p. 70, p. 71, p. 72, p. 73, p. 75, p. 9.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 100, p. 100, p. 100, p. 101, p. 104, p. 113, p. 139, p. 217, p. 225, p. 250, p. 251, p. 262, p. 285, p. 302, p. 303, p. 306, p. 387, p. 448, p. 451, p. 464, p. 476, p. 527, p. 55, p. 560, p. 64, p. 74, p. 77, p. 95, p. 98, p. 99.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. ENG url p. 680, p. 728, p. 755.
• The beginnings of embryonic development: A symposium organized by the Section on Zoological Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, cosponsored by the American Society of Zoologists and the Association of Southea Edited by Al Washington, 1957. ENG url p. 140, p. 149, p. 151, p. 166.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NCOS1959_Echinodermata
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 593482
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-157216
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13728533
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 157216
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 17553

Footnotes

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