Marthasterias glacialis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -32 meters (-105 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Members of the genus Marthasterias

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More Info

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Further Reading

• A monograph of the existing crinoids. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1915- url p. 636, p. 785.
• Alaska. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1901- url p. 100, p. 370, p. 400, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49.
• Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc., South African Museum, etc.] url p. 304, p. 305.
• Breviora. 1969 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 6.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url , , p. 176, p. 224, p. 439.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 151.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 119, p. 600, p. 630.
• Fertilization. London, Methuen;[1956] url p. 158, p. 61.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 205, p. 213, p. 385, p. 615.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 31.
• Fundamental aspects of normal and malignant growth. Amsterdam, Elsevier Pub. Co., 1960. url p. 332.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 31, p. 34, p. 48, p. 74, p. 80.
• Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. LondonOxford university Press, 1927. url p. 143, p. 144, p. 454, p. 48.
• Harriman Alaska series. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914. url p. 100, p. 370, p. 400, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49.
• Harriman Alaska series. vol. I-V, VIII-XIV Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1910-14 url p. 100, p. 370, p. 400, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49.
• 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. 129.
• 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. 370, p. 400, p. 46, p. 49.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 11.
• Papers in marine biology and oceanography, dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow by his former students and associates on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1955. London, Pergamon Press, 1955. url p. 25.
• System of ophthalmology. St. Louis, Mosby, 1958- url p. 814.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , p. 10, p. 108, p. 114, p. 114, p. 122, p. 15, p. 171, p. 171, p. 173, p. 176, p. 215, p. 216, p. 224, p. 225, p. 231, p. 260, p. 266, p. 269, p. 315, p. 329, p. 35, p. 36, p. 37, p. 384, p. 398, p. 44, p. 45, p. 465, p. 469, p. 470, p. 472, p. 661, p. 677, p. 681, p. 76, p. 78, p. 91.
• The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book IUCN url p. 541, p. 542.
• The biology of marine animals. New York, Interscience Publishers[1960] url p. 467.
• The inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates / by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke and Walter Calhoun Wheeler. Washington: U. S Gov't. Print. Off., 1922. url p. 28.
• World directory of hydrobiological and fisheries institutions. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1963. url p. 273.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, A comparison of benthic biodiversity in the North Sea, English Channel and Celtic Seas
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Marine Benthic Fauna List, Læsø, Denmark
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine Life Survey Data
• collated by MarLIN
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
• held by MarLIN.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 593553
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-157289
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 5213960
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 157289
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 405475

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 359.610 based on 3,355 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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