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Brisinga costata Verrill, 1884 
AphiaID: 178255

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Brisingida (Order) > Brisingidae (Family) > Brisinga (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brisinga Asbjørnsen, 1856
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: 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 Caribbean Sea [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Guyana Basin [details]
Haiti [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178255
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-29 11:05:05Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2007-12-20 04:58:32Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Brisinga costata Verrill, 1884. 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=178255 on 2013-05-21
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