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Ferdina flavescens Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 212299

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Ferdina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ferdina Gray, 1840
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. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212299
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-04-01 13:22:26Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2009-02-01 01:36:32Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Ferdina flavescens 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=212299 on 2013-05-20
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