Asteroidea taxon details
Heliaster Gray, 1840 AphiaID: 255070
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Genus |
| Typetaxon | | Asterias helianthus Lamarck, 1816 (type by subsequent designation)
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| Parent | | Heliasteridae Viguier, 1878 |
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original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details]
additional source: Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Clark, H.L. (1907). The starfishes of the genus Heliaster. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 51(2): 25-76. [details]
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taxa
[show all] | | Species Heliaster canopus Perrier, 1875
Species Heliaster cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Species Heliaster helianthus (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Heliaster kubiniji Xantus, 1860
Species Heliaster microbrachius Xantus, 1860
Species Heliaster polybrachius H.L. Clark, 1907
Species Heliaster solaris A.H. Clark, 1920
Species Heliaster cumingi Verrill, 1870 accepted as Heliaster polybrachius H.L. Clark, 1907
Species Heliaster morrisoni A.H. Clark, 1949 accepted as Heliaster microbrachius Xantus, 1860
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255070 |
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| | | Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Heliaster Gray, 1840. 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=255070 on 2013-05-24 |
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