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Diplasiaster Halpern, 1970 
AphiaID: 178100

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Plinthaster productus A.H.Clark, 1917
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]

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 Species Diplasiaster productus (A.H.Clark, 1917)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178100
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-01-20 11:01:19Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Diplasiaster 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=178100 on 2013-06-20
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