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Pseudarchaster gracilis tessellatus Sladen, 1889 
AphiaID: 178135

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Pseudarchasteridae (Family) > Pseudarchaster (Genus) > Pseudarchaster gracilis (Species)
Status alternate representation
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Pseudarchaster gracilis (Sladen, 1889)
Source  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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Cape Basin [details]
False Bay [details]
South Angola [details]
West Africa Coast [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Validity: Possibly conspecific with Pseudarchaster parelii (Duben & Koren, 1846) according to Halpern (1972) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178135
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2009-02-01 01:36:32Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pseudarchaster gracilis tessellatus Sladen, 1889. 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=178135 on 2013-05-20
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