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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinides Verrill, 1914 
AphiaID: 178675

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteroidea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorValvatacea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPaxillosida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinidae 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]

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taxa
[show all]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinides callistus (Fisher, 1906)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinides ctenophora (Fisher, 1906)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinides mesactus (Sladen, 1883)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStatus This genus though to be a synonym of Astropecten but now considered to be generically distinct by Downey. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178675
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 07:50:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-01-21 08:09:52Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Astropectinides Verrill, 1914. 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=178675 on 2014-03-14
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