WoRMS taxon details
Asterias caput-medusae Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 123722
AphiaID: 123722
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Asterias Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To PESI | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123722 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asterias caput-medusae Linnaeus, 1758. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123722 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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