WoRMS taxon details
Heliasteridae Viguier, 1878
AphiaID: 255069
AphiaID: 255069
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||
| Parent | Forcipulatida | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Labidiasteridae Verrill, 1914 (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Clark, H.L. (1907). The starfishes of the genus Heliaster. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 51(2): 25-76. [details] from synonym: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Heliaster Gray, 1840 Genus Labidiaster Lütken, 1872 | |||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||
| Distribution | Southern Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255069 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Heliasteridae Viguier, 1878. 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=255069 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||
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