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Parastropecten Ludwig, 1905 
AphiaID: 380626

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Subgenus according to Fisher (1940).)
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Accepted name  Leptychaster (Parastropecten) (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876
Rank Genus
Parent Astropectinidae 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 Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905 accepted as Leptychaster (Parastropecten) inermis (Ludwig, 1905) represented as Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380626
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2009-01-17 01:37:51Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). 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=380626 on 2013-05-24
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