Forcipulatacea 
AphiaID: 582527

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea

Authority		Blake, 1987
Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Superorder
Parent		Asteroidea
Sources		original description: Blake, D.B. (1987). Classification and phylogeny of post-Paleozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528.  [details] status source: Mah, C. & D. Foltz. (2011). Molecular Phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(3): 646-660, available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00688.x/abstract [details]
Direct child taxa		Order Forcipulatida
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Link		To GenBank
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:582527
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2011-10-20 21:42:30Z   created   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Forcipulatacea. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582527 on 2013-05-18
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