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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParastropecten Ludwig, 1905 
AphiaID: 380626

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 editorPaxillosida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParastropecten (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (Subgenus according to Fisher (1940).)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876
Rank Genus
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstropectinidae Gray, 1840
Source  original description Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. 32: 292 pp. [details]

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Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeptychaster (Parastropecten) inermis (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380626
Taxonomic
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2009-01-17 01:37:51Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2014). Parastropecten Ludwig, 1905. 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=380626 on 2015-01-30
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