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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChondraster elattosis H.L. Clark, 1923 
AphiaID: 177998

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 editorValvatacea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorValvatida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPoraniidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChondraster (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChondraster Verrill, 1895
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]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
From other sources
South Africa
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSouth Africa (country) [details]
South Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCape Basin [details]
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorType locality Type locality: South from Cape Infanta, 1025 m. (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177998
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-10-16 17:09:26Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Chondraster elattosis H.L.Clark, 1923. 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=177998 on 2014-04-16
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