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Rosaster Perrier, 1894 
AphiaID: 178136

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 Pentagonaster alexandri Perrier, 1881 (type by monotypy)
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Synonymised
taxa		  Nereidaster Verrill, 1899 (Synonym according to Fisher (1917))
 Nymphaster (Neridaster) Verrill, 1899
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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Rosaster alexandri (Perrier, 1881)
Species Rosaster attenuatus Liao, 1984
Species Rosaster bipunctus (Sladen, 1889)
Species Rosaster cassidatus Macan, 1938
Species Rosaster confinis (Koehler, 1910)
Species Rosaster endilius McKnight, 1975
Species Rosaster florifer (Alcock, 1893)
Species Rosaster mamillatus Fisher, 1913
Species Rosaster mimicus Fisher, 1913
Species Rosaster nannus Fisher, 1913
Species Rosaster symbolicus (Sladen, 1889)

Species Rosaster breviradiata Sladen, 1889 accepted as Rosaster symbolicus (Sladen, 1889)
Species Rosaster timorensis Doderlein, 1924 accepted as Rosaster confinis timorensis Doderlein, 1924
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178136
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-10-22 23:45:22Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Rosaster Perrier, 1894. 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=178136 on 2013-06-19
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