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Brisaster owstoni Mortensen, 1950 
AphiaID: 513067

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Paleopneustina (Suborder) > Schizasteridae (Family) > Brisaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brisaster Gray, 1855
Sources  original description: Mortensen, T. 1950. New Echinoidea (Spatangoida). Preliminary notice. Videnskabelige Meddelelsar Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn 112, 157-163.
page(s): 160 [details]


basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 291-292 [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
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Type locality: Japan. Gulf of Tokio and Sagami Sea [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513067
Taxonomic
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2010-09-07 08:24:41Z  created  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Brisaster owstoni Mortensen, 1950. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513067 on 2013-05-19
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