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Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus madseni A.M. Clark & Tortonese, 1950 
AphiaID: 178742

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Spinulosacea (Superorder) > Spinulosida (Order) > Echinasteridae (Family) > Echinaster (Genus) > Echinaster (Echinaster) (Subgenus) > Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus (Retzius, 1783)
Synonymised
taxa		  Echinaster madseni A.M. Clark & Tortonese, 1986
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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178742
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-05 07:22:50Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2009-01-22 02:48:17Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus madseni A.M. Clark & Tortonese, 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=178742 on 2013-06-20
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