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Asterias reticulata Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 178213

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Oreaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842
Parent Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178213
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-29 10:12:16Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2009-01-04 05:20:04Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Asterias reticulata Linnaeus, 1758. 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=178213 on 2013-05-25
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