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Lophaster furcifer (Düben & Koren, 1846) 
AphiaID: 124156

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Solasteridae (Family) > Lophaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lophaster Verrill, 1878
Synonymised
taxa		  Solaster furcifer Düben & Koren, 1846 (synonym)
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: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Barents Sea [details]
Bermuda [details]
British Isles [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cape Cod [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faeroes [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Florida [details]
Greenland [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Kara Sea [details]
Kattegat [details]
Kola Bay [details]
Laptev Sea [details]
Newfoundland Basin [details]
North American Basin [details]
Norway [details]
Nova Scotia [details]
Spitsbergen [details]
Sweden [details]
Trondheim [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
added on 2009-08-05 - author: J. A. Grieg
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

Lophaster furcifer - pair of stars
Lophaster furcifer - pair of stars
added on 2012-01-25 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124156
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2009-01-08 02:40:22Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Lophaster furcifer (Düben & Koren, 1846). 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=124156 on 2013-06-19
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