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WoRMS taxon details

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterias forcipulata Verrill, 1909 
AphiaID: 379329

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 editorForcipulatacea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorForcipulatida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsteriidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterias (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterias forcipulata (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher (1928))
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStylasterias forreri (deLoriol, 1887)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAsterias Linnaeus, 1758
Source  original description 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:379329
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-01-01 17:28:17Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2014). Asterias forcipulata Verrill, 1909. In: Mah, C.L. (2014) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=379329 on 2015-01-30
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