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Asterias ophiura Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 123762

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ophiura ophiura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Ophiura Lamarck, 1801
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]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123762
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2005-08-03 10:03:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-08-27 13:50:37Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
2009-02-10 18:45:31Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2009-02-16 08:11:15Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asterias ophiura 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=123762 on 2013-06-19
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