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Nectria Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 254902

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
Sources  original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details]

additional source: Shepherd, S. A. (1967). A review of the starfish genus Nectria (Asteroidea: Goniasteridae). Records of the South Australian Museum 15: 463–482. [details]

additional source: Zeidler, W. and F. W. E. Rowe. (1986). A revision of the southern Australian starfish genus Nectria (Asteroidea: Oreasteridae), with the description of a new species. Records of the South Australian Museum 19: 117–138. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Nectria humilis Zeidler & Rowe, 1986
Species Nectria macrobrachia H.L. Clark, 1923
Species Nectria multispina H.L. Clark, 1928
Species Nectria ocellata Perrier, 1875
Species Nectria ocellifera (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Nectria pedicelligera Mortensen, 1925
Species Nectria saoria Shepherd, 1967
Species Nectria wilsoni Shepherd & Hodgkin, 1966

Species Nectria monacantha Fisher, 1917 accepted as Nectriaster monacanthus (H.L.Clark, 1916)
Species Nectria ocellifera Sladen, 1889 accepted as Nectria ocellata Perrier, 1875
Species Nectria ocellifera H.L. Clark, 1909 accepted as Asterodiscides truncatus (Coleman, 1911)
Species Nectria oculifera Gray, 1840 accepted as Nectria ocellata Perrier, 1875
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254902
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 16:14:03Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Nectria Gray, 1840. 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=254902 on 2013-05-20
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