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Astropecten spiniphorus Madsen, 1950 
AphiaID: 178670

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Astropecten (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Astropecten Gray, 1840
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]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178670
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 07:50:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-10-17 04:40:47Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropecten spiniphorus Madsen, 1950. 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=178670 on 2013-05-23
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