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Anthenea flavescens (Gray, 1840) 
AphiaID: 254945

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Anthenea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Anthenea Gray, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Anthenea nuda Doderlein, 1915 (A variety of A. flavescnes)
Hosia flavescens Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Perrier (1875))
Sources  from synonym: Doderlein, L. (1915). Die Arten der Asteroiden-Gattung Anthenea Gray. Jahrbuchern des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde in Wiesbaden 68: 21-55. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254945
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2007-12-22 17:11:25Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Anthenea 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=254945 on 2013-05-22
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