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Freyella fragilissima Sladen, 1889 
AphiaID: 234907

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Brisingida (Order) > Freyellidae (Family) > Freyella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Freyella Perrier, 1885
Sources  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]

basis of record: Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Danis B & Jangoux M, 2006. The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species: Asteroidea. World Wide Web electronic publication., available online at http://www.scarmarbin.be [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 Antarctic Ocean [details]
Crozet Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Prince Edward Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Queen Mary Land [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Subantarctic Isles [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Taxonomic Remark: Fisher (1928) only tentatively placed this species into Freyella pending further knowledge of its gonad morphology. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234907
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-12-04 08:41:33Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2008-06-11 12:57:51Z  checked  Danis, Bruno
2009-02-10 18:45:31Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Danis, B. (2013). Freyella fragilissima 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=234907 on 2013-05-22
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