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Brisingenes Fisher, 1917 
AphiaID: 178258

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Brisingida (Order) > Brisingidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Brisingidae G.O. Sars, 1875
Source  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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Brisingenes anchista Fisher, 1919
Species Brisingenes mimica (Fisher, 1916)
Species Brisingenes multicostata (Verrill, 1894)
Species Brisingenes plurispinula Aziz & Jangoux, 1985

Species Brisingenes delli Fell, 1958 accepted as Astrostephane moluccana (Fisher, 1916)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178258
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-29 11:05:05Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2006-04-19 09:58:39Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-10-18 04:20:59Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Brisingenes Fisher, 1917. 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=178258 on 2013-05-22
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