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Diplopteraster multipes (M. Sars, 1866) 
AphiaID: 124128

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Velatida (Order) > Pterasteridae (Family) > Diplopteraster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diplopteraster Verrill, 1880
Synonymised
taxa
  Pteraster multipes M. Sars, 1866 (synonym)
Retaster multipes Sladen, 1889
Sources  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]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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

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 Subspecies Diplopteraster multipes multipes (M. Sars, 1866)
Subspecies Diplopteraster multipes patagiatus Fisher, 1916
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Barents Sea [details]
Cape Basin [details]
Chesapeake Bay [details]
Circumboreal [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Finnmark [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Kattegat [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norway [details]
Porcupine Seabight [details]
Rockall Trough [details]
Sargasso Sea [details]
Trondheim [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
West European Basin [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality South Norway [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle valley) [details]

Distribution: Distribution: also atlantic coast of S Africa (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]

Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Diplopteraster multipes
Diplopteraster multipes
added on 2010-07-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2012-11-03 03:22:59

Diplopteraster multipes-2
Diplopteraster multipes-2
added on 2010-07-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2012-11-03 03:23:14
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124128
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2009-01-20 18:13:59Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Diplopteraster multipes (M. Sars, 1866). 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=124128 on 2013-05-23
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