WoRMS taxon details
Apollonaster Halpern, 1970
AphiaID: 178064
AphiaID: 178064
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Apollonaster yucatanensis Halpern, 1970 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Halpern, J.A. (1970). Biological Investigations of the deep sea.53. New species and genera of goniasterid sea stars. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 83(1): 1-12 [details] 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] additional source: Halpern, J.A. (1970). Goniasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) of the Straits of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 20(1): 193-286 [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Apollonaster yucatanensis Halpern, 1970 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178064 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Apollonaster Halpern, 1970. 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=178064 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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