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Pillsburiaster Halpern, 1970 
AphiaID: 178131

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 Pillsburiaster geographicus Halpern, 1970 (type by original designation)
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
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]

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: Clark, H.E.S. & D.G. McKnight. (2001). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) Order Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 117: 1-270 pp. [details]

additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Pillsburiaster annandalei (Koehler, 1909)
Species Pillsburiaster aoteanus McKnight, 1973
Species Pillsburiaster calvus Mah, 2011
Species Pillsburiaster ernesti (Ludwig, 1905)
Species Pillsburiaster geographicus Halpern, 1970
Species Pillsburiaster indutilis McKnight, 2006
Species Pillsburiaster maini McKnight, 1973
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178131
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-10-23 02:03:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pillsburiaster 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=178131 on 2013-05-20
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