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Sclerasterias stenactis (H.L. Clark, 1926) 
AphiaID: 213392

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Sclerasterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
Rank Species
Parent Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891
Synonymised
taxa
  Eustolasterias stenactis H.L. Clark, 1926
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Type locality: Type locality: NE of Durban, 355 m. (Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976). [details]

Validity: Reduced to a forma of S. euplecta (Fisher 1906) by Fisher (1928) but thought to be a synonym of S. mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) according to Macan (1938). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213392
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2000-04-12 19:24:07Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 12:31:29Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2009-02-01 01:36:32Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Sclerasterias stenactis (H.L. Clark, 1926). 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=213392 on 2013-05-22
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