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Allostichaster capensis (Perrier, 1875) 
AphiaID: 178784

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Stichasteridae (Family) > Allostichaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Allostichaster Verrill, 1914
Synonymised
taxa		  Allostichaster hebes (Verrill, 1915) (Synonym according to Madsen (1956) and then A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992))
 Allostichaster inaequalis Koehler, 1923 (Synonym according to Madsen (1956))
 Asteracanthion polyplax Müller & Troschel, 1842
 Asterias capensis Perrier, 1875
 Asterias fernandensis de Loriol, 1904 (Synonym according to Madsen (1956))
 Cosmasterias capensis Fisher, 1926
 Stephanasterias hebes Verrill, 1915 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Downey (1992).)
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]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Falkland Islands [details]
False Bay [details]
Gough Island [details]
Magellan Strait [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South Angola [details]
South Chile [details]
Subantarctic Isles [details]
Tierra del Fuego [details]
Tristan da Cunha [details]
Tristan da Cunha (Fracture Zone) [details]
Uruguay [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Type locality: Type locality: South Africa (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]
Image 
Allostichaster inaequalis
[image from synonym]
Allostichaster inaequalis
added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178784
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-05 07:22:50Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-12-26 05:08:28Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Allostichaster capensis (Perrier, 1875). 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=178784 on 2013-05-24
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