Diploporaster barbatus Mortensen, 1950 
AphiaID: 214603

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Paleopneustina (Suborder) > Schizasteridae (Family) > Diploporaster (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Diploporaster Mortensen, 1950b
Sources		original description: Mortensen, T. 1950. New Echinoidea (Spatangoida). Preliminary notice. Videnskabelige Meddelelsar Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn 112, 157-163. page(s): 160 [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 240-241 [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
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Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Notes		Remark: Type species of the genus Diploporaster Mortensen, 1950 (=Schizaster (Ova) gray, 1825) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type locality: Zanzibar, East Africa, Indian Ocean [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214603
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-29 13:20:33Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Diploporaster barbatus Mortensen, 1950. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214603 on 2013-05-20