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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias Fisher, 1908 
AphiaID: 172532

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteroidea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorForcipulatacea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorForcipulatida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteriidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias perrieri (Studer, 1885) (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteriidae Gray, 1840
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPaedasterias Verrill, 1914 (Synonym according to Fisher (1922))
Sources  original description Fisher, W.K. (1908). Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous collections (Quaterly). 52: 87-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35634#page/117/mode/1up
page(s): 88 [details]

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taxa (13)
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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias adeliae (Koehler, 1920)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias belgicae (Ludwig, 1903)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias chirophora (Ludwig, 1903)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias digitata A.M. Clark, 1962
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias hemiora Fisher, 1940
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias heteractis Fisher, 1940
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias joffrei (Koehler, 1920)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias lactea (Ludwig, 1903)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias perrieri (Studer, 1885)

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias cupulifera (Koehler, 1908) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias perrieri (Studer, 1885)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias studeri (Perrier, 1891) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnasterias studeri Perrier, 1891
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias tenera (Koehler, 1906) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias perrieri (Studer, 1885)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias victoriae (Koehler, 1920) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLysasterias perrieri (Studer, 1885)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172532
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-12 13:53:46Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-22 06:50:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-06-11 12:57:51Z  checked  Danis, Bruno
2008-12-29 02:59:07Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2017-06-03 16:39:53Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2017). Lysasterias Fisher, 1908. In: Mah, C.L. (2017). World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172532 on 2017-08-22
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