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Allasterias nortonensis Verrill, 1909 
AphiaID: 378803

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Allasterias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (A variety of A. rathbuni)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Asterias rathbuni (Verrill, 1909)
Rank Species
Parent Allasterias Verrill, 1909 accepted as Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Source  original description: Verrill, A.E. (1909). Description of new genera and species of starfishes from the North Pacific coast of America. American Journal of Science 28: 59-70. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378803
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2008-12-26 05:08:28Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Allasterias nortonensis Verrill, 1909. 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=378803 on 2013-05-21
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