The World Asteroidea Database - Plazaster Fisher, 1941

Asteroidea taxon details

Plazaster Fisher, 1941

AphiaID

254845 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254845)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Asteriidae Gray, 1840

Direct children (1)

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Species Plazaster borealis (Uchida, 1928)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Fisher, W.K. (1941). A new genus of sea stars (Plazaster) from Japan, with a note on the genus Parasterina. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 90 (3114): 447-455.
page(s): 447 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Plazaster Fisher, 1941. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254845 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-12-19 07:06:44Z

created

Mah, Christopher

2011-06-27 21:58:12Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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original description Fisher, W.K. (1941). A new genus of sea stars (Plazaster) from Japan, with a note on the genus Parasterina. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 90 (3114): 447-455.
page(s): 447 [details]

additional source Imaoka, T., Irimura, S., Okutani, T., Oguro, C. & Kanazawa, K. (1991). Echinoderms from the Continental Shelf and Slope around Japan. Vol. II. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Tokyo: Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association. 1-204. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank