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Astropecten irregularis pontoporeus Sladen, 1883 
AphiaID: 178656

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Astropecten (Genus) > Astropecten irregularis (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Astropecten irregularis (Pennant, 1777)
Synonymised
taxa		  Astropecten capensis Studer, 1884 (synonym according to Doderlein (1917))
 Astropecten irregularis pontoporaeus Sladen, 1883 (Spelling variation)
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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
False Bay [details]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Angola [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178656
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 07:50:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2009-01-11 20:59:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten irregularis pontoporeus Sladen, 1883. 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=178656 on 2013-06-19
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