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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcalia pulchella Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 368963

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteroidea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorValvatacea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorValvatida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOphidiasteridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcalia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcalia pulchella (Species)
Status alternate representation
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLinckia (Acalia) pulchella Gray, 1840
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcalia Gray, 1840
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScytaster pulchella (Gray, 1840)
Source  original description Gray, J. E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 285 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTaxonomy H.L. Clark (1921) indicates genus is "unrecognisable". A.M. Clark (1993) indicates that diagnoses are inadequate for recognition. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368963
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-10-24 18:54:18Z  created  Mah, Christopher
2017-06-14 16:29:03Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2017). Acalia pulchella Gray, 1840. In: Mah, C.L. (2017). World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=368963 on 2017-09-24
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