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Dytaster Sladen, 1889 
AphiaID: 123248

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Astropectinidae Gray, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Crenaster Perrier, 1885 non d'Orbigny, 1850 (synonym)
Crenaster Perrier, 1885 (synonym according to Fisher (1908). )
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: 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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Dytaster aequivocus Sladen, 1889
Species Dytaster agassizi Perrier, 1894
Species Dytaster cherbonnieri Sibuet, 1975
Species Dytaster felix Koehler, 1907
Species Dytaster felli H.E.S Clark & D.G. McKnight, 2000
Species Dytaster gilberti Fisher, 1905
Species Dytaster grandis (Verrill, 1884)
Species Dytaster inermis Sladen, 1889
Species Dytaster insignis (Perrier, 1884)
Species Dytaster intermedius Perrier, 1891
Species Dytaster mollis (Perrier, 1885)
Species Dytaster nobilis Sladen, 1889
Species Dytaster pedicellaris H.E.S Clark & D.G. McKnight, 2000
Species Dytaster rigidus Perrier, 1894
Species Dytaster semispinosus (Perrier, 1894)
Species Dytaster spinosus Sladen, 1889
Species Dytaster spinulosus (Perrier, 1894)

Subgenus Dytaster (Koremaster) Fisher, 1913 accepted as Koremaster Fisher, 1913
Species Dytaster anacanthus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 accepted as Persephonaster gracilis (Sladen, 1889)
Species Dytaster biserialis Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster insignis (Perrier, 1884)
Species Dytaster carinata Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster grandis (Verrill, 1884)
Species Dytaster demonstrans Ludwig, 1905 accepted as Dytaster gilberti Fisher, 1905
Species Dytaster evaulus Fisher, 1913 accepted as Koremaster evaulus (Fisher, 1913)
Species Dytaster exilis Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster insignis (Perrier, 1884)
Species Dytaster gracilis Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster exilis Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster insignis (Perrier, 1884)
Species Dytaster madreporifer Sladen, 1889 accepted as Dytaster grandis grandis (Verrill, 1884)
Species Dytaster parvulus Koehler, 1907 accepted as Dytaster semispinosus (Perrier, 1894)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123248
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2008-01-21 08:09:52Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2009-01-11 20:59:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Dytaster Sladen, 1889. 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=123248 on 2013-05-23
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