Plazaster Fisher, 1941 
AphiaID: 254845

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: Fisher, W.K. (1941). A new genus of sea stars (Plazaster) from Japan, with a note on the genus Parasterina. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 90 (3114): 447-455. [details] additional source: Imaoka, T., Irimura S., Okutani T., Oguro C., Oji T., Kanazawa K. (1991). Echinoderms from Continental Shelf and Slope around Japan. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association. Vol. II: 1-204 [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Plazaster borealis (Uchida, 1938)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Hokkaido [details]
Link		To GenBank
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254845
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-19 07:06:44Z   created   Mah, Christopher 2011-06-27 21:58:12Z   changed   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Plazaster Fisher, 1941. 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=254845 on 2013-06-18