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Bathybiaster vexillifer (W. Thomson, 1873) 
AphiaID: 123881

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Bathybiaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bathybiaster Danielssen & Koren, 1883
Synonymised
taxa
  Archaster robustus Verrill, 1885 (Synonym according to Koehler (1909))
Archaster vexillifer Wyvile Thomson, 1873 (synonym)
Astropecten pallidus Danielssen & Koren, 1877 (synonym according to Koehler (1909))
Astropecten vexillifer Viguier, 1878
Bathybiaster pallidus (Danielssen & Koren, 1877) (synonym according to Koehler (1909))
Bathybiaster robustus (Verrill, 1894) (Synonym according to Koehler (1909), Mortensen (1927), and Fisher (1940).)
Ilyaster mirabilis Danielssen & Koren, 1882 (synonym according to Koehler (1909))
Phoxaster pumilus Sladen, 1889 (Synonym according to Koehler (1909))
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]

basis of record: 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]

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

from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Barents Sea [details]
Bay of Biscay [details]
Circumboreal [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Kara Sea [details]
Kattegat [details]
Laptev Sea [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
Norway [details]
Norwegian Sea [details]
Rockall Trough [details]
Trondheim [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
West European Basin [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123881
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2009-01-11 20:59:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Bathybiaster vexillifer (W. Thomson, 1873). 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=123881 on 2013-05-22
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