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Pentaceros tuberculatus Sladen, 1889 † 
AphiaID: 211871

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Pentaceros (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
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Accepted name  Pentaceraster tuberculatus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Rank Species
Parent Pentaceros Gray, 1840 accepted as Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842
Source  original description: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range fossil only
Distribution Mozambique [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211871
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 tuberculatus Sladen, 1889. 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=211871 on 2013-05-22
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