Asterias amurensis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• 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.

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -34 meters (0 to -112 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Reproduction

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 27-Dec-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Asterias

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. amurensis (Northern Pacific Seastar) · A. rubens (Starfish)

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Further Reading

• Alaska. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1901- url p. 194, p. 390.
• An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1951] url p. 42.
• Biology of the seas of the U.S.S.R. Translated by S. Botcharskaya. New York, Interscience Publishers[1963] url p. 772, p. 907.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , p. 22, p. 24, p. 243, p. 256, p. 342, p. 37, p. 6, p. 8.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 96.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 108, p. 122, p. 126, p. 134, p. 33.
• Environmental assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf: Annual reports of principal investigators. [Boulder, Colo.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, url p. 123, p. 33, p. 40, p. 46, p. 49, p. 53, p. 6, p. 61, p. 64, p. 8, p. 88, p. 92.
• 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 url , p. 373.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 508.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. 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. url p. 194, p. 390.
• Harriman Alaska series. vol. I-V, VIII-XIV Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1910-14 url p. 194, p. 390.
• Larvae of marine bivalves and echinoderms / V.L. Kasyanov. .. [et al.]; scientific editor, David L. Pawson. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1998. url , p. 105, p. 116, p. 120, p. 129, p. 132, p. 134, p. 135, p. 136, p. 137, p. 2, p. 269, p. 271, p. 272, p. 281.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 59.
• Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California / by Addison Emery Verrill; with 110 plates. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1914. url p. 194, p. 390.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url , .
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 3.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 532, p. 544.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 493.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 505.
• 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. url , p. 565, p. 565, p. 571, p. 574, p. 575, p. 575.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. 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 Ballast Water Control Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine, Fisheries Management, and Coast Guard and Navigation of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Washington: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994. url p. 51.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , , , p. 100, p. 100, p. 100, p. 101, p. 104, p. 113, p. 139, p. 18, p. 217, p. 225, p. 249, p. 250, p. 250, p. 251, p. 251, p. 252, p. 253, p. 254, p. 262, p. 285, p. 302, p. 303, p. 306, p. 387, p. 448, p. 451, p. 464, p. 476, p. 516, p. 527, p. 528, p. 529, p. 531, p. 548, 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. 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 Albert Tyler, R.C. von Borstel, and Charles B. Metz. Washington, 1957. url p. 140, p. 149, p. 151, p. 166.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

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

1. 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. [back]

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