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Plutonaster agassizi agassizi Verrill, 1880 
AphiaID: 178706

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Plutonaster (Genus) > Plutonaster agassizi (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Plutonaster agassizi Verrill, 1880
Sources  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]

additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details]

context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Ascension [details]
Canary Basin [details]
Canary Islands [details]
Cape Basin [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Guyana Basin [details]
Iberian Basin [details]
Madeira [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
St. Helena [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178706
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 14:20:09Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2009-01-17 05:18:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Plutonaster agassizi agassizi Verrill, 1880. 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=178706 on 2013-05-22
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