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Perissasterias H.L. Clark, 1923 
AphiaID: 178800

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Forcipulatacea > Forcipulatida > Asteriidae
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Parent Asteriidae Gray, 1840
Sources  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]

basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

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 Species Perissasterias heptactis H.L. Clark, 1926
Species Perissasterias monacantha McKnight, 1973
Species Perissasterias obtusispina H.L. Clark, 1926
Species Perissasterias polyacantha H.L. Clark, 1923
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To GenBank
Note  SpellingPerissaasterias in Clark & Courtman-Stock (1976).
Type species: Perissasterias polyacantha H.L. Clark, 1923 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178800
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2005-08-05 07:22:50Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-01-19 09:31:50Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Perissasterias H.L. Clark, 1923. 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=178800 on 2013-06-20
  
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