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Pentaceros hiulcus Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 211869

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Pentaceros (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936))
Record
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Accepted name  Protoreaster nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Pentaceros Gray, 1840 accepted as Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842
Sources  source of synonymy: 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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Tanzania [details]
Note  Remark: Ludwig (1899) cites Linck as authority. In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211869
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-08-04 14:17:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-20 06:55:28Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2008-12-23 04:29:04Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pentaceros hiulcus 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=211869 on 2013-06-19
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