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Valvatida 
AphiaID: 123090

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder)
Authority Perrier, 1884
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Valvatacea
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: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS[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: Blake, D.B. (1980). On the affinites of three small sea-star families. Journal of Natural History 14: 163-182 [details]

additional source: Blake, D.B. (1981).A reassessment of the sea-star orders Valvatida and Spinulosida. Journal of Natural History 15: 375-394 [details]

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

additional source: 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]

status source: Mah, C.L. and D.W. Foltz. (2011). Molecular Phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 769-788., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00659.x/full [details]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Acanthasteridae
Family Archasteridae Viguier, 1878
Family Asterinidae Gray, 1840
Family Asterodiscididae Rowe, 1977
Family Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
Family Chaetasteridae Sladen, 1889
Family Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889
Family Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Family Leilasteridae Jangoux & Aziz, 1988
Family Mithrodiidae Viguier, 1878
Family Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899
Family Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
Family Oreasteridae Fisher, 1911
Family Podosphaerasteridae Fujita & Rowe, 2002
Family Poraniidae Perrier, 1875
Family Solasteridae Viguier, 1878
Family Sphaerasteridae Sch̦ndorf, 1906ʠ

Family Asteropidae Fisher, 1908 accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
Family Gnathasteridae Koehler, 1924 accepted as Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899
Family Gymnasteriidae accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
Family Linckiidae Viguier, 1878 accepted as Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
Family Pentopliidae H.E.S. Clark, 1971 accepted as Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Family Valvasteridae Viguier, 1878 accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123090
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2008-01-19 09:31:50Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2011-10-20 21:42:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Valvatida. In: Mah, C.L. (2013). World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123090 on 2013-05-18
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