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Brisingida 
AphiaID: 123085

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder)
Authority Fisher, 1928
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Forcipulatacea
Synonymised
taxa
  Euclasteroidea (Regarded as unecessarily cumbersome and arbitrary by Downey (1986). Synonymized by same.)
Sources  basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Downey. M.E. (1986). Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No.435. 57pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10088/5505 [details]

additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1917). New genera and species of Brisingidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(8): 418-431. [details]

additional source: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details]

additional source: Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Tortonese, E. (1958). Euclasteroidea: nuovo ordine di asteroidi (Echinodermi). Doriana 2(88): 1-3 [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Brisingidae G.O. Sars, 1875
Family Freyellidae Downey, 1986
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123085
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2005-07-29 11:05:05Z  changed  Braeckman, Ulrike
2006-05-02 11:28:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-19 09:31:50Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2011-10-20 21:42:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Brisingida. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123085 on 2013-05-25
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