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Leptasterias polaris acervata (Stimpson, 1862) 
AphiaID: 292975

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Leptasterias (Genus) > Leptasterias polaris (Species)
Status alternate representation
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Leptasterias (Hexasterias) polaris acervata (Stimpson, 1862)
Rank Subspecies
Parent Leptasterias polaris (Müller & Troschel, 1842) represented as Leptasterias (Hexasterias) polaris (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Synonymised
taxa		  Asterias philippii Bell, 1881 (Synonym according to Fisher (1926))
 Asterias polythela Verrill, 1909 (Synonym according to Djakonov (1950))
 Leptasterias acervata (Stimpson, 1862)
 Leptasterias aphelonota Fisher, 1930
 Leptasterias intermedia Djakonov, 1938 (Homonym)
Sources  basis of record: ArcOD species list provided by Falk Huettmann on 2007-11-25 (look up in IMIS) [details]

original description (from synonym): Verrill, A.E. (1909). Description of new genera and species of starfishes from the North Pacific coast of America. American Journal of Science 28: 59-70. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:292975
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-02-01 08:45:38Z  created  Decock, Wim
2009-01-30 03:03:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Leptasterias polaris acervata. 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=292975 on 2013-06-19
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