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Halityle regularis Fisher, 1913 
AphiaID: 211863

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Halityle (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Halityle Fisher, 1913
Parent Halityle Fisher, 1913
Synonymised
taxa		  Culcitaster anamesus H.L. Clark, 1914
 Halityle anamesus (H.L.Clark, 1915) (A synonym according to Baker & Marsh (1976))
Sources  original description: Fisher, W.K. (1913). New starfishes from the Philippine Islands, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Proceedings of the Untied States National Museum 46: 201-224 [details]

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: Fisher, W.K. (1919). Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3(100): 1-547. 156 pls. [details]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Baker, A.N. & L.M. Marsh (1976). The rediscovery of Halityle regularis Fisher (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 4(2): 107-116. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
New Caledonia [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Host of  Asterocomes indica Rao, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicomes tumidulus Humes & Cressey, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Description: Also distributed in Philippine (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west pacific Ocean, depth range 3-275 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Holotype: Holotype in U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 32634. Type locality: Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Image 
Halityle regularis
Halityle regularis
added on 2008-11-09 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2012-12-21 08:22:19
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211863
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-04-06 13:23:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-26 07:19:20Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2009-01-30 03:03:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Halityle regularis Fisher, 1913. 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=211863 on 2013-06-19
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