Astroceramus Fisher, 1906 
AphiaID: 178069

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Valvatacea > Valvatida > Goniasteridae > Astroceramus

Status		accepted
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon		Astroceramus callimorphus Fisher, 1906 (type by monotypy)
Parent		Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Sources		original description Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130., available online at http://fishbull.noaa.gov/23-3/fisher1.pdf page(s): 1056 [details] basis of record Clark, A.M.; Downey, M.E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Mah, C.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Eagle, M.K.; Pawson, D.L.; Améziane, N.; Vance, D.J.; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S.; Davey, N. (2009). Phylum Echinodermata: sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies. In: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 371-400. [details] [show all]
Direct child taxa (9) [show all] [sort alpha..]		Species Astroceramus boninensis Kogure & Tachikawa, 2009 Species Astroceramus brachyactis H.L. Clark, 1941 Species Astroceramus cadessus Macan, 1938 Species Astroceramus callimorphus Fisher, 1906 Species Astroceramus denticulatus McKnight, 2006 Species Astroceramus eldredgei Mah, 2015 Species Astroceramus fisheri Koehler, 1909 Species Astroceramus lionotus Fisher, 1913 Species Astroceramus sphaeriostictus Fisher, 1913
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178069
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-28 06:51:10Z   created   Braeckman, Ulrike 2008-12-13 01:01:45Z   changed   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2008). Astroceramus Fisher, 1906. In: Mah, C.L. (2017). World Asteroidea database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178069 on 2017-06-26