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Forcipulatida 
AphiaID: 123086

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder)
Authority Perrier, 1884
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Forcipulatacea
Sources  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. & 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]

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

Direct child
taxa		 Family Asteriidae Gray, 1840
Family Heliasteridae Viguier, 1878
Family Pedicellasteridae Perrier, 1884
Family Pycnopodiidae Fisher, 1928
Family Stichasteridae
Family Zoroasteridae Sladen, 1889

Family Labidiasteridae Verrill, 1914 accepted as Heliasteridae Viguier, 1878
Family Neomorphasteridae Fisher, 1923 accepted as Stichasteridae
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123086
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2007-12-29 02:37:08Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2007-12-30 03:30:36Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-02-09 20:23:27Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2011-10-20 21:42:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Forcipulatida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123086 on 2013-05-21
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