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Astrophiura Sladen, 1879 
AphiaID: 205464

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Chilophiurina (Infraorder) > Ophiuridae (Family) > Ophiurinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
Parent Ophiurinae Lyman, 1865
Sources  basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

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

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Astrophiura chariplax Baranova, 1955
Species Astrophiura kawamurai Matsumoto, 1913
Species Astrophiura kohurangi McKnight, 1975
Species Astrophiura levii Vadon, 1991
Species Astrophiura marionae Ziesenhenne, 1951
Species Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
Species Astrophiura tiki Litvinova & Smirnov, 1981
Species Astrophiura wanikawa Fujita & Hendler, 2001

Species Astrophiura cavellae Koehler, 1915 accepted as Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Remark: Type species: Astrophiura permira Sladen 1878 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205464
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z  created  Garcia, Maria
2006-09-06 06:55:51Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-07-12 13:29:01Z  checked  Stöhr, Sabine
2007-10-03 10:45:15Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Astrophiura Sladen, 1879. 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=205464 on 2013-05-19
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