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Calliaster Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 205380

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Sources  original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details]

basis of record: 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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Calliaster acanthodes H.L. Clark, 1923
Species Calliaster baccatus Sladen, 1889
Species Calliaster childreni Gray, 1840
Species Calliaster corynetes Fisher, 1913
Species Calliaster elegans Doderlein, 1922
Species Calliaster erucaradiatus Livingstone, 1936
Species Calliaster mamillifer Alcock, 1893
Species Calliaster pedicellaris Fisher, 1906
Species Calliaster quadrispinus Liao, 1989
Species Calliaster regenerator Doderlein, 1922
Species Calliaster spinosus H.L. Clark, 1916
Species Calliaster thompsonae H.E.S. Clark, 2001
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To GenBank
Note  Remark: Type species: Calliaster childreni Gray, 1840 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205380
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-09-02 20:23:25Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-26 07:19:20Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-12-17 23:27:22Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-01-21 06:51:38Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Calliaster Gray, 1840. 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=205380 on 2013-05-21
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