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Paxillosida 
AphiaID: 123088

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder)
Authority Perrier, 1884
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Valvatacea
Synonymised
taxa
  Platyasterida (Originally used to accomodate the idea of a Paleozoic ancestry for Luidiidae & other Paleozoic only taxa.Luidiidae has since been removed.Paleozoic classification remains in flux but this name is largely unused.)
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: Massin, Claude (look up in IMIS[details]

status source: Mah, C.L. and D.W. Foltz. (2011). Molecular Phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 769-788., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00659.x/full [details]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Astropectinidae Gray, 1840
Family Ctenodiscidae Sladen, 1889
Family Goniopectinidae Verrill, 1889
Family Luidiidae Sladen, 1889
Family Porcellanasteridae Sladen, 1883
Family Pseudarchasteridae
Family Radiasteridae Fisher, 1916

Family Mimasteridae Verrill, 1914 accepted as Radiasteridae Fisher, 1916
Family Plutonasteridae Verrill, 1899 accepted as Astropectinidae Gray, 1840
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123088
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2008-01-21 08:09:52Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2011-10-20 21:42:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Paxillosida. 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=123088 on 2013-06-18
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