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Amphiura diastata (Murakami, 1942) 
AphiaID: 242927

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Amphiuridae (Family) > Amphiura (Genus)
Status temporary name (homonym of Amphiura diastata McClendon, 1909)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amphiura Forbes, 1843
Synonymised
taxa		  Amphilepis diastata Murakami, 1942 (synonymized by A.M. Clark (1965))
Sources  original description: McClendon, J.F. 1909. The ophiurans of the San Diego region. University of California Publications in Zoology, 6(3), 33-64. [details]

basis of record: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1970). Notes on the family Amphiuridae (Ophiuroidea). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 19(1): 1-81. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clark, A.M. 1965. Japanese and other ophiuroids from the collections of the Munich museum. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 13(2), 39-71, 1 pl. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Murakami, S. 1942. Ophiurans of Izu, Japan. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyusyu Imperial University, 7(1), 1-36, 12 figs. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Note  Taxonomic Remark: Transferred to Amphiura by A.M. Clark 81965), which made it a homonym of Amphiura diastata McClendon, 1909. Penging a revision this name is dubiuos. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242927
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-07-18 12:17:12Z  created  Stöhr, Sabine
2011-05-18 14:10:02Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2011-06-27 08:34:26Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Amphiura diastata (Murakami, 1942). In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=242927 on 2013-05-21
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