WoRMS taxon details
Cistina Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 205375
AphiaID: 205375
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details] 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: Blake, D.B. (1978). The taxonomic position of the modern sea-star Cistina Gray, 1840. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(1): 234-241. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Cistina columbiae Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: Type species: Cistina columbiae Gray, 1840 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205375 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Cistina Gray, 1840. 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=205375 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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