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Astropecten forbesi
Taxonomy
Astropecten forbesi was named by Heller (1858). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1858 | Astropecten forbesi Heller p. 158 figs. pl. 1, fig. 1-3 |
| 1876 | Astropecten forbesi Quenstedt p. 64 figs. pl. 92 fig. 17 |
| 1893 | Astropecten forbesi Sacco p. 745 |
| 1896 | Astropecten forbesi del Prato p. 45 |
| 1908 | Astropecten forbesi Lemoine p. 135 |
| 1909 | Astropecten forbesi von Linstow p. 55 |
| 1915 | Astropecten forbesi Vadasz p. 97 |
| 1929 | Astropecten forbesi Valette p. 416 |
| 1955 | Astropecten forbesi Hess p. 57 |
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†Astropecten forbesi Heller 1858
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Hess 1955 | Ventro-lateral area restricted to the disc. Superomarginal plates without spine base. Inferomarginal plates with medium size, flattened spines. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Collections
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