WoRMS taxon details
Archasteridae Viguier, 1878
AphiaID: 152514
AphiaID: 152514
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Archaster typicus Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Valvatida | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] additional source: Sukarno and M. Jangoux. (1977). Révision du genre Archaster Müller et Troschel (Echinodermata, Asteroidea: Archasteridae). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bruxelles) 91: 817–844. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Archaster Müller & Troschel, 1840 Genus Astropus Gray, 1840 accepted as Archaster Müller & Troschel, 1840 Subfamily Benthopectininae Verrill, 1894 accepted as Benthopectinidae Verrill, 1899 Subfamily Pararchasterinae Sladen, 1889 accepted as Benthopectinidae Verrill, 1899 Subfamily Plutonasterinae Sladen, 1889 accepted as Astropectinidae Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152514 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Archasteridae Viguier, 1878. 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=152514 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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