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Disasterina akajimaensis Saba, Iwao & Fujita, 2012 
AphiaID: 716927

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Asterinidae (Family) > Disasterina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Disasterina Perrier, 1875
Source  original description: Saba, M, Iwao, K, and Fujita, T. (2012) A new asterinid sea star, Disasterina akajimaensis (Echinodermata; Asteroidea) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan with notes on the genus Disasterina. Species Diversity 17: 21-28 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Japanese Numeri-itomaki-hitode-zoku  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Ryukyu Islands [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716927
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2013-01-31 01:57:35Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Disasterina akajimaensis Saba, Iwao and Fujita, 2012. 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=716927 on 2013-05-18
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