Asteroidea name details
original description
Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (<i>Asterias</i>, Linnaeus). <em>Annals of the Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up page(s): 276 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. <em>In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies.</em> 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy A junior homonym of Pentaceros Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829 (Pisces). [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Originally described by Linck in 1733 (=pre-Linnean). Pentaceros Schultze, 1760 invalid, a non-binominal work rejected by the ICZN. In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details]
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