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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Echinodermata (phylum)  »  Asteroidea (class)  »  Valvatida (order)  »  Asterinidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 140009 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ailsastra heteractis    (H.L. Clark, 1938)
CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata
Family:	Asterinidae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a seastar]
Recent Synonyms:	Asterina heteractis Aquilonastra heteractis
Common Names List:	seastar starfish
Organism Type:	a seastar
Identifiers:	Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2b9cc29f-fe8c-4405-b8f5-406b629b30fd    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382561    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-03-02 View at WoRMS    - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	Rowe, F. W. E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata. CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	O'Loughlin, P.M. Rowe, F.W.E., 2005. A new asterinid genus from the Indo-West Pacific region, including five new species (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asterinidae)., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 62(2): 181-189.