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Litonotaster Verrill, 1899 
AphiaID: 178119

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 Litonotaster intermedius (Perrier, 1884) (type by original designation)
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Sources  original description: Verrill, A.E. (1899). Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(1): 145-234 [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]

additional source: Halpern, J.A. (1969). Biological Investigations of the deep sea.46. The genus Litonotaster (Echinodermata, Asteroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82: 129-142. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Litonotaster africanus Halpern, 1969
Species Litonotaster intermedius (Perrier, 1884)
Species Litonotaster rotundigranulum Halpern, 1969
Species Litonotaster tumidus H.L. Clark, 1920
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178119
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-12-14 04:28:08Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Litonotaster Verrill, 1899. 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=178119 on 2013-05-19
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