WoRMS taxon details
Leptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905)
AphiaID: 380609
AphiaID: 380609
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Leptychaster (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Accepted name | Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876 | |||||||
| Rank | Subgenus | |||||||
| Parent | Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Parastropecten Ludwig, 1905 (Subgenus according to Fisher (1940).) | |||||||
| Source |
from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. 32: 292 pp. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Leptychaster (Parastropecten) inermis (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905) (alternate representation) Species Leptychaster (Parastropecten) stellatus Ziesenhenne, 1942 represented as Leptychaster stellatus Ziesenhenne, 1942 (alternate representation) | |||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: A synonym according to Fisher (1911) but restored later by Fisher (1940). [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380609 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Leptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905). 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=380609 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||
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