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Asterias versicolor Sladen, 1889 
AphiaID: 379668

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Asterias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution South China Sea [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:379668
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-01-05 03:22:03Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Asterias versicolor Sladen, 1889. 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=379668 on 2013-05-19
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