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Hacelia Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 123312

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ophidiaster (Hacelia) attenuatus Gray, 1840 (type by monotypy)
Parent Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
Synonymised
taxa
  Ophidiaster (Hacelia) Gray, 1840 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS[details]

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]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Hacelia attenuata Gray, 1840
Species Hacelia capensis Mortensen, 1925
Species Hacelia inarmata (Koehler, 1895)
Species Hacelia superba H.L.Clark, 1921
Species Hacelia tuberculata Liao, 1985

Species Hacelia floridae A.H. Clark, 1948 accepted as Tamaria floridae (Perrier, 1881)
Species Hacelia helicosticha H.L. Clark, 1909 accepted as Ophidiaster helicostichus Sladen, 1889
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Spelling: Was spelled Hazelia in ERMS1.0 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123312
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2006-03-02 09:04:57Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2006-04-19 08:26:55Z  changed  Rotenberg, Serge
2008-12-24 03:52:28Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Hacelia Gray, 1840. 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=123312 on 2013-05-19
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