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Gorgonocephalus arcticus Leach, 1819

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Leach, W. E. (1819). Descriptions des nouvelles espèces d’Animaux découvertes par le vaisseau Isabelle dans un voyage au pôle boréal. Journal De Physique, De Chimie, Et d’Histoire Naturelle, 88: 462–467. https://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=139497

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Echinodermata
class
Ophiuroidea
order
Euryalida
family
Gorgonocephalidae
genus
Gorgonocephalus
species
Gorgonocephalus arcticus

Name

Synonyms
Astrophyton agassizi Stimpson, 1853
Gorgonocephalus agassizi (Stimpson, 1854)
Homonyms
Gorgonocephalus arcticus Leach, 1819
Common names
Estrela-medusa-ártica in Portuguese
Tête de méduse arctique in French
northern basket star in English
northern basket star in English
northern basket star in English
northern basket star in English
northern basket star in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp.
  2. Clark, Hubert Lyman, 1915: Catalogue of recent Ophiurans: Based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 25, no. 4. 165-376.
  3. Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.).
  4. Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351.
  5. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  6. Leach, W.E. (1819). Descriptions des nouvelles espèces d'Animaux découvertes par le vaisseau Isabelle dans un voyage au pôle boréal. [Descriptions of new species of animals discovered by the ship Isabelle on a voyage to the northern pole.]. <em>Journal de Physique, de Chimie, et d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 88: 462-467.
  7. Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p.
  8. Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota.</em> Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S.
  9. Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324.
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