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Ophiuroidea taxon details

Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869 
AphiaID: 242445

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Euryalidae (Family) > Euryalinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Asteromorpha steenstrupi Lütken, 1869 (type by original designation)
Parent Euryalinae Gray, 1840, emended Okanishi et al., 2011
Synonymised
taxa
  Ophiogelas Koehler, 1930 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS[details]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Fell, H.B. (1960). Synoptic Keys to the Genera of Ophiuroidea, Zoology Publications, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 26: 1-44 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

taxonomy source: Okanishi, M., O'Hara, T.D. & Fujita, T. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the order Euryalida (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 392-399. [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Asteromorpha koehleri (Döderlein, 1898)
Species Asteromorpha rousseaui (Michelin, 1862)
Species Asteromorpha tenax Baker, 1980

Species Asteromorpha laevis Lyman, 1872 accepted as Asteroschema laeve (Lyman, 1872)
Species Asteromorpha perplexum (Koehler, 1930) accepted as Asteromorpha koehleri (Döderlein, 1898)
Species Asteromorpha steenstrupi Lütken, 1869 accepted as Asteromorpha rousseaui (Michelin, 1862)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242445
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-07-12 13:29:01Z  created  Stöhr, Sabine
2007-09-13 10:46:32Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
2011-09-19 13:40:18Z  changed  Stöhr, Sabine
  
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  Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=242445 on 2013-06-18
  
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