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Ganeria Gray, 1847 
AphiaID: 177931

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ganeriidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ganeria falklandica Gray, 1847 (type by monotypy)
Parent Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889
Source  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]

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 Species Ganeria attenuata Koehler, 1907
Species Ganeria falklandica Gray, 1847
Species Ganeria hahni Perrier, 1891

Species Ganeria papillosa Perrier, 1891 accepted as Ganeria falklandica Gray, 1847
Species Ganeria robusta Perrier, 1891 accepted as Ganeria falklandica Gray, 1847
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177931
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-06-11 12:57:51Z  checked  Danis, Bruno
2008-12-08 02:38:14Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Danis, B. (2013). Ganeria Gray, 1847. 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=177931 on 2013-05-22
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