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Asterias brachiata Montagu, 1804 
AphiaID: 123720

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (moved to genus Acrocnida by Gislén (1926))
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Acrocnida brachiata (Montagu, 1804)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Acrocnida Gislén, 1926
Amphiura (Acrocnida)
Parent Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Montagu G. (1808). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, 9, pp. 81-114;pls. 2-8., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13719# [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: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123720
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
2008-12-31 03:51:57Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2011-12-13 15:28:52Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2011-12-14 10:30:18Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asterias brachiata Montagu, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123720 on 2013-05-24
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