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Pteraster tesselatus Ives, 1888 
AphiaID: 369053

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Velatida (Order) > Pterasteridae (Family) > Pteraster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Pteraster Müller & Troschel, 1842
Synonymised
taxa
  Pteraster gracilis H.L. Clark, 1901 (Synonym according to Fisher (1940))
Pteraster hebes Verrill, 1909 (Synonym according to Fisher (1930))
Pteraster japonicus Uchida, 1931 (Possible synonym based on Djakonov (1950).)
Pteraster multispinus H.L. Clark, 1901 (Probable synonym according to Fisher (1940).)
Pteraster reticulatus Verrill, 1909 (Lapsus according to Verrill (1914))
Sources  additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1911). Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the US National Museum, 76: xiii+420 pp.122 pls. [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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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 Subspecies Pteraster tesselatus arcuatus Fisher, 1911
Subspecies Pteraster tesselatus glomus Hayashi, 1940
Subspecies Pteraster tesselatus tesselatus Ives, 1888
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Aleutian Islands [details]
British Columbia [details]
California [details]
Japan [details]
Oregon [details]
Tosa Bay [details]
Washington (State) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:369053
Taxonomic
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2008-10-25 14:18:49Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pteraster tesselatus Ives, 1888. 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=369053 on 2013-06-20
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