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Gymnasterias carinifera Bell, 1893 
AphiaID: 216174

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Gymnasterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816)
Rank Species
Parent Gymnasterias accepted as Porania Gray, 1840
Source  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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Chagos [details]
Seychelles [details]
Notes  Remark: Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. [details]

Spelling: Lapsus for Gymnasteria Gray, 1840 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216174
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-06-25 13:20:55Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2009-01-30 03:03:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Gymnasterias carinifera Bell, 1893. 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=216174 on 2013-06-20
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