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Astrocladus Verrill, 1899 
AphiaID: 205329

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Gorgonocephalidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Euryale verrucosum Lamarck, 1816
Parent Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867
Sources  basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. & A. Guille (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. Faune de Madagascar. No 48: iv +272pp. [details]

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

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Astrocladus africanus Mortensen, 1933
Species Astrocladus annulatus (Matsumoto, 1912)
Species Astrocladus coniferus (Döderlein, 1902)
Species Astrocladus dofleini Döderlein, 1910
Species Astrocladus euryale (Retzius, 1783)
Species Astrocladus exiguus (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Astrocladus hirtus Mortensen, 1933
Species Astrocladus ludwigi (Döderlein, 1896)
Species Astrocladus pardalis (Döderlein, 1902)
Species Astrocladus tonganus Döderlein, 1911

Species Astrocladus annulatum Matsumoto, 1912 accepted as Astrocladus annulatus (Matsumoto, 1912)
Species Astrocladus granulatus H.L. Clark, 1938 accepted as Astroboa granulatus (H.L. Clark, 1938)
Species Astrocladus verrucosum (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Astrocladus exiguus (Lamarck, 1816)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To GenBank
Note  Remark: Type species: Euryale verrucosum Lamarck, 1816 (=Asterias euryale Retzius, 1783) by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205329
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-04-18 18:44:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-19 07:15:44Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2006-09-06 06:55:51Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-07-12 13:29:01Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
2009-06-26 07:24:59Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Astrocladus Verrill, 1899. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205329 on 2013-05-22
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