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Tessellaster H.L.Clark, 1941 
AphiaID: 178143

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 Tessellaster notabilis H.L.Clark, 1941
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]

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[show all]		 Species Tessellaster notabilis H.L.Clark, 1941
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178143
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-28 06:51:10Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-01-26 04:29:56Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Tessellaster H.L.Clark, 1941. 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=178143 on 2013-05-23
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