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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Echinodermata (phylum)  »  Asteroidea (class)  »  Forcipulatida (order)  »  Asteriidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 154026 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Anasterias mawsoni    (Koehler, 1920)
CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata
Family:	Asteriidae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a seastar]
Recent Synonyms:	Parastichaster mawsoni Anasterias mawsoni Sporasterias sphoerulata Anasterias sphoerulata
Organism Type:	a seastar
Identifiers:	World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234867    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - View potential occurrences at OBIS
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in subantarctic/Antarctic waters: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Antarctica Southern Ocean (non coastal)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	O'Hara, T.D., 1999. Systematics and biology of Macquarie Island echinoderms., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 57(2): 167-223.
Scientific Name verified against:	McKnight, D.G., 2006. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-Stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida, with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida., NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Vol. 120: 1-187.