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Astroceramus Fisher, 1906 
AphiaID: 178069

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Valvatacea > Valvatida > Goniasteridae
Status accepted
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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. [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (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., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details]

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 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 fisheri Koehler, 1909
Species Astroceramus lionotus Fisher, 1913
Species Astroceramus sphaeriostictus Fisher, 1913
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178069
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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. (2013). Astroceramus Fisher, 1906. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178069 on 2013-05-24
  
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