WoRMS taxon details
Alternaster Doderlein, 1920
AphiaID: 368172
AphiaID: 368172
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Luidiidae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym (formerly subgenus of Luidia)) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Luidia Forbes, 1839 | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Asterias alternata Say, 1825 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Luidiidae Sladen, 1889 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Doderlein, L. (1920). die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition. 2. Die Gattung Luidia und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga Expedition 46: 193-291. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: Raised to genus by Fell (1963) but not adopted by subsequent workers. Not accepted even as subgenus. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368172 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Alternaster Doderlein, 1920. 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=368172 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |