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Hacelia superba H.L.Clark, 1921 
AphiaID: 178254

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Hacelia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hacelia Gray, 1840
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: Miller, J.E. (1984). Systematics of the ophidiasterid sea stars Copidaster lymani A.H. Clark, and Hacelia superba H.L. Clark (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) with a key to species of Ophidiasteridae from the Western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97(1): 194-208. [details]

additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Ascension [details]
Atlantic [details]
Bahamas [details]
Cape Hatteras [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Florida [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
St. Helena [details]
Yucatan [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178254
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-29 11:05:05Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2007-01-19 16:36:29Z  checked  Bamber, Roger
2008-10-22 04:26:17Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Hacelia superba H.L.Clark, 1921. 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=178254 on 2013-05-21
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