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Goniodiscides Fisher, 1906 
AphiaID: 206041

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher (1919))
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Culcita (Agassiz, 1836)
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Goniodiscus sebae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Parent Oreasteridae Fisher, 1911
Sources  original description: Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130. [details]

basis of record: Clark H.L. (1909). Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52: 107-135. [details]

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

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Species Goniodiscides sebae (Müller & Troschel, 1842) accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Synonymy: Goniodiscides was a nom. nov. for Goniodiscus which was untenable because both are ultimately synonyms of Culctia and other goniasterid/oreasterids. See synonym of Goniodiscus for full explanation. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206041
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-06-28 10:19:11Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 10:45:07Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-12 06:54:36Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-12-07 02:46:14Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Goniodiscides Fisher, 1906. 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=206041 on 2013-06-19
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