MSBIAS taxon details

Asteroidea 
AphiaID: 123080

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa
Authority de Blainville, 1830
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Class
Parent Asterozoa
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies, 5: pp. 183-250 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Mah, C.L. (2006). A new species of Xyloplax from the Northeast Pacific: comparative morphology and a reassessment of phylogeny. Invertebrate Biology 125 (2): 136-153 [details]

additional source: Blake, D.B. (1987). Classification and phylogeny of post-Paleozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528.  [details]

additional source: Massin, Claude (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English sea stars  [details]
English starfish  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Superorder Forcipulatacea
Superorder Spinulosacea
Superorder Valvatacea
Order Velatida
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To ITIS
Images 
Asteroidea 1
Asteroidea 1
added on 2006-07-27 - author: Stefano Schiaparelli
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Asteroidea indet.
Asteroidea indet.
added on 2007-05-05 - author: Martin Rauschert
qualitystatus: not checked

St. Lawrence sea star poster
St. Lawrence sea star poster
added on 2010-11-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Asteroidea
Asteroidea
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
qualitystatus: not checked

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To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123080
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2005-03-29 12:14:34Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2006-05-02 11:28:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-06-11 12:57:51Z  checked  Danis, Bruno
2009-01-20 02:53:29Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2009-06-22 07:47:14Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Hansson, H. (2013). Asteroidea. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2013) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at http://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123080 on 2013-05-20