Anthenea australiae Döderlein, 1915

Jangoux, Michel, 2021, The asteroid species of Lamarck (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), Zoosystema 43 (13), pp. 213-252 : 215

australiae Döderlein, 1915 , Anthenea

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Anthenea australiae Döderlein, 1915: 52 .

CURRENT STATUS. — Anthenea australiae Döderlein, 1915 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MNHN-IE-2014-542; 1 specimen; Baudin expedition (1800-1804); Péron and Lesueur leg. [formerly identified as syntype of Asterias pentagonula ] • MNHN-IE-2014-543; 1 specimen; same origin as precedent [formerly identified as syntype of Asterias pentagonula ] • MHNH; Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74052; Baudin expedition .

DISTRIBUTION. — West and north-west Australian coasts.

REMARK

The MNHN houses two individuals of Döderlein’s Anthenea australiae under the name Anthenea pentagonula ( Lamarck, 1816) , a misidentification resulting from an earlier confusion about the status of Lamarck’s Asterias pentagonula (further explanation under that species).

Figures

FIG. 3. — Anthenea australiae DÖderlein, 1915: A, B, abactinal and actinal surfaces; C, interradial arc and adambulacral spines and plates; D, madreporite and abactinal plates; E, specimen of A. australiae from the Baudin expedition [syntype of Asterias pentagonula] (A-D, Lesueur collection 74052, details, courtesy of MHNH; E, MNHN-IE-2014-543). Scale bar: D, 50 mm.