Catalogue of the type specimens of sea stars (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from research collections of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences ...

• Main Authors: Smirnov, Igor, Khalikov, Roman
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 2024
• Subjects: Checklist; Inventorythematic; Specimen; Occurrence; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/3vvua7; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/31f8727c-debb-4c38-bb89-0eb2594537a9

The Catalogue includes the images of dorsal and ventral views of the sea stars composed of views of type specimens; views of deposit units (jars and boxes); label and collection data; maps showing type localities for primary and secondary types of 82 species and subspecies of the starfish of the class Asteroidea De Blainville, 1830 [5, 7]. The collection of the Echinoderm Department of the Laboratory of Marine investigations totals more than 24000 units of storage and is divided into systematic and non-identified. The systematic part of the collection is stored in taxonomic order (according to family, genus and species), while non-identified part — according to expeditions. Feodor Fyodorovich Brandt (Johann Friedrich von Brandt) (1802–1879) — the founder and first director of the Zoological museum has processed materials on sea stars collected by K.H. Mertens, during expedition on the vessel Senyavin (Kamchatka — 1827) and A.F. Middendorff, during Sea of Okhotsk expedition 1844 year [3, 4]. Several specimens ...