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Disasterina Perrier, 1875 
AphiaID: 204722

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Asterinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Asterinidae Gray, 1840
Synonymised
taxa		  Habroporina H.L. Clark, 1921 (Synonym according to Livingstone (1933))
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Disasterina abnormalis Perrier, 1875
Species Disasterina akajimaensis Saba, Iwao & Fujita, 2012
Species Disasterina ceylanica Doderlein, 1888
Species Disasterina longispina (H.L. Clark, 1938)
Species Disasterina odontacantha Liao, 1980
Species Disasterina spinosa Koehler, 1910

Species Disasterina leptalacantha (H.L. Clark, 1916) accepted as Tegulaster leptalacantha (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Species Disasterina praesignis Livingstone, 1933 accepted as Tegulaster praesignis (Livingstone, 1933)
Species Disasterina spinulifera H.L. Clark, 1938 accepted as Tegulaster praesignis (Livingstone, 1933)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Remark: Type species: Disasterina abnormalis Perrier, 1875 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204722
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-09-01 22:28:27Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 12:31:29Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2008-12-10 02:34:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Disasterina 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=204722 on 2013-05-22
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