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Ferdina Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 205754

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

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Ferdina flavescens Gray, 1840
Species Ferdina sadhaensis Marsh & Campbell, 1991

Species Ferdina cumingi H.L. Clark, 1921 (nomen dubium)

Species Ferdina cancellata (Grube, 1857) accepted as Neoferdina cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Species Ferdina cumingi Gray, 1840 accepted as Neoferdina cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Species Ferdina glyptodisca Fisher, 1913 accepted as Neoferdina glyptodisca (Fisher, 1913)
Species Ferdina heffernani Livingstone, 1930 accepted as Celerina heffernani (Livingstone, 1936)
Species Ferdina intermedia Djakonov, 1930 accepted as Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910)
Species Ferdina kuhli (Müller & Troschel, 1842) accepted as Neoferdina kuhli (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Ferdina ocellata H.L. Clark, 1921 accepted as Neoferdina cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Species Ferdina offreti Koehler, 1910 accepted as Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Remark: In family Linckiidae in Ludwig (1899) and Clark (1654).
Type species: Ferdina flavescens Gray 1840, by subsequent designation by Fisher (1910). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205754
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-08-04 14:17:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2006-09-12 06:54:36Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-01-25 09:35:43Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Ferdina 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=205754 on 2013-05-21
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