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Mortensenia da Costa, 1941 
AphiaID: 378942

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Forcipulatacea > Forcipulatida > Asteriidae
Status nomen nudum
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Parent Asteriidae Gray, 1840
Source Not documented
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Species Mortensenia lusitanica da Costa, 1941 (nomen nudum)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Status: A NOMEN NUDUM according to Da Costa (1952), preoccupied by Mortensenia Doderlein, 1905-Echinoidea and renamed Carlasterias, which is probably a synonym of Sclerasterias according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992: 415, 449). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378942
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2008-12-29 02:59:07Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Mortensenia da Costa, 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=378942 on 2013-05-25
  
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