Evasterias Verrill, 1914 
AphiaID: 254332

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Forcipulatacea > Forcipulatida > Asteriidae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Asteriidae Gray, 1840
Sources		basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1930). Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters, Pt. 3: Forcipulata (Concluded). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-356.Pls. 1-93. [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Evasterias derjungini (Djakonov, 1938) Species Evasterias echinosoma Fisher, 1926 Species Evasterias retifera Djakonov, 1938 Species Evasterias troscheli (Stimpson, 1862) Species Evasterias acanthostoma (Verrill, 1909) accepted as Evasterias troscheli (Stimpson, 1862) Species Evasterias alveolata Verrill, 1894 accepted as Evasterias troscheli (Stimpson, 1862) Species Evasterias retata Djakonov, 1950 accepted as Evasterias retifera Djakonov, 1938 Species Evasterias tabulata Djakonov, 1938 accepted as Evasterias retifera Djakonov, 1938
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254332
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-06 09:58:56Z   created   Huettmann, Falk 2008-10-22 04:46:32Z   changed   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Evasterias Verrill, 1914. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254332 on 2013-05-21