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Asterias placenta Pennant, 1777 
AphiaID: 123770

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  Anseropoda placenta (Pennant, 1777)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Anseropoda Nardo, 1834
Parent Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  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. (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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123770
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2009-01-04 05:20:04Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Asterias placenta Pennant, 1777. 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=123770 on 2013-06-20
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