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Glyphodiscus Fisher, 1917 
AphiaID: 254784

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Synonymised
taxa		  Iconaster (Glyphodiscus) Fisher, 1917
Sources  original description: Fisher, W.K. (1917). New starfishes from the Philippines and Celebes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 30: 89-93. [details]

basis of record: Mah, C.L. (2005). A phylogeny of Iconaster and Glyphodiscus (Goniasteridae; Valvatida; Asteroidea) with descriptions of four new species. Zoosystema 27(1): 131-167. [details]

additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1919). Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3(100): 1-547. 156 pls. [details]

from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E. (1989). Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Glyphodiscus magnificus Mah, 2005
Species Glyphodiscus pentagonalis Mah, 2005
Species Glyphodiscus perierctus Fisher, 1917

Species Glyphodiscus mcknighti Rowe, 1989 accepted as Glyphodiscus perierctus Fisher, 1917
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254784
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-17 23:27:22Z  created  Mah, Christopher
2007-12-20 06:34:18Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Glyphodiscus Fisher, 1917. 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=254784 on 2013-05-18
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