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

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Smirnov I, Khalikov R (2026). Catalogue of the type specimens of sea stars (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from research collections of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Version 1.23. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Checklist dataset. https://ipt.zin.ru/resource?r=zin_asteroidea&v=1.23

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Keywords

Checklist; Inventorythematic; Specimen; Occurrence; Checklist

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Sampling was carried out all over the World Ocean.

Taxonomic Coverage

Sea stars (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) collection identified to species and subspecies.

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Sampling was carried out using different collecting gears mainly trawls and grabs of various constructions.

Method step description:

1. Collected materials on sea stars (mainly wet (alcohol) and occasionally dry) were identified to species and subspecies level and deposited in the collections of the Zoological Institute RAS.

Collection Data

Bibliographic Citations

1. Baranova Z. I. 1957. Echinoderms of the Bering Sea // Issledovaniya Dalnevostochnykh Morei SSSR. Issue 4. M., L.: USSR Academy of Sciences Publisher. P. 149–266. [In Russian]
2. Baranova Z. I. 1962. Echinoderms of the Kuril Islands // Issledovaniya Dalnevostochnykh Morei SSSR. Issue 8. M., L.: USSR Academy of Sciences Publisher. P. 347–363. [In Russian]
3. Brandt J. F. 1835. Prodromus descriptionis Animalium ab H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum, Petropooli. Fasc. I: 203–275. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40762#page/5/mode/1up
4. Brandt J. F. 1851. Brandt J. F. (1851). Bemerkungen uber die Asteriden und Echiniden Ochotskischen, Kamtschatischen und Behringschen Meeres. A. Th. v. Middendorff, Reise in den aussersten Norden and Osten Sibiriens, etc.,. vol. 2, pt. 1; Echinodermen, Ddr. F. Brandt und E. Grube pp. 27–34. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114010#page/41/mode/1up
5. Djakonov A. M. 1950. Sea stars of the seas of the USSR. Keys to the Fauna of USSR 34: 204 pp, fig 1–212. [In Russian]
6. Gruzov E. N. 1964. Novaja glubokovodnaja morskaja zvezda Astrocles djakonovi sp. n. (Brisingidae) iz Ohotskogo morja. Zoologicheskii zhurnal. T. 43, vyp. 9. S. 1394–1396. [In Russian]
7. Mah C., Hansson H. 2009. Asteroidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123080
8. Smirnov A. V. 1982. Species Pteraster obscurus (Perrier, 1891) and P. octaster Verrill, 1909 (Asteroidea: Pterasteridae) // Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. Vol. 8(16). Korotkevitch V. S. (Ed.). Marine invertebrates of coastal biocenoses of the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. L.: Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR. P. 102–113 [In Russian]
9. Smirnov A.V. 2001. Class Asteroidea. Explorations of the fauna of the seas [Issledovaniya fauny morei]. Vol. 51(59). Sirenko B.I. (ed.). List of free-living invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic Seas and adjacent deep waters. P. 123–124.
10. Smirnov A.V. 2013. Class Asteroidea. Explorations of the fauna of the seas. Vol. 75(83). Sirenko B.I. (Ed.). Check-list of species of free-living invertebrates of the Russian Far Eastern Seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. P. 191–195, 232–234.
11. Stepanjants S. D., Bjorklund K. R., Chernova N. V., Smirnov I. S., Lajus J. A. Damperen "Andrei Perwoswanniy" et 100 ars jubileum. Arbok for Bergen Museum 1998, Universitet i Bergen, 1999. P. 69–75.
12. Stepanjants S. D., Chernova N. V., Sirenko B. I., Smirnov I. S., Bjorklund K. R. From N. M. Knipovich — the organizer of the First scientifically-trade expedition on exp./ves. "Andrey Perwoswanniy (Pervozvannyj)" to modern Russian researches of a marine fauna of the Arctic region // The History of the studying and exploration of Arctic region — from the past to the future: the collection of materials of scientific conference with the international participation (12–13 September 2012) / compilers A. V. Gavzov, P. A. Ramensky; North (Arctic) Federal. University in the name of M. V. Lomonosov. Arkhangelsk: PPC SAFU (NAFU), 2012: 151, 152. [In Russian]

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