WoRMS taxon details
Dipsacaster Alcock, 1893
AphiaID: 178680
AphiaID: 178680
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Astropectinidae Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Alcock, A. (1893). Natural History notes from the HM Indian Marine Survey Steamer Investigator.7. An account of the collection of deep-sea Asteroidea. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 11(6): 73-121. page(s): 87 [details] 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] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Dipsacaster anoplus Fisher, 1910 Species Dipsacaster antillensis Halpern, 1968 Species Dipsacaster borealis Fisher, 1910 Species Dipsacaster diaphorus Fisher, 1913 Species Dipsacaster eximius Fisher, 1905 Species Dipsacaster farquharsoni Macan, 1938 Species Dipsacaster grandissimus Goto, 1914 Species Dipsacaster imperialis Fisher, 1917 Species Dipsacaster laetmophilus Fisher, 1910 Species Dipsacaster magnificus (H.L. Clark, 1916) Species Dipsacaster nesiotes Fisher, 1905 Species Dipsacaster pentagonalis Alcock, 1893 Species Dipsacaster pretiosus (Doderlein, 1902) Species Dipsacaster sagaminus Hayashi, 1973 Species Dipsacaster sladeni Alcock, 1893 Species Dipsacaster capensis A.M. Clark, 1952 accepted as Dipsacaster sladeni capensis A.M. Clark, 1952 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: Type species: Dipsacaster sladeni Alcock 1893, by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178680 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Dipsacaster Alcock, 1893. 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=178680 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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