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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Echinodermata (phylum)
» Asteroidea (class)
» Paxillosida (order)
» Astropectinidae (family)
CAAB Code :
25 111008
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Astropecten phragmorus
Fisher, 1913
Rank : Species
CAAB category :
25 -
Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family :
25 111 Astropectinidae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name : [a seastar]
Organism Type : a seastar
Synonyms :
Astropecten polyacanthus phragmorus
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
25 111901
Astropecten spp.
Distribution map :
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Taxon Notes :Regarded by some authors as a subspecies of Astropecten polyacanthus . Here we retain it as a full species pending a revision of the group.
Identifiers :
AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a99ce5f9-7090-46cc-b69d-4ee73962d3f2
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213232
Name status: unaccepted
Checked on: 2022-06-23
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01209
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_126_007 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date: 09-December-2005 Position: -24.0437° 113.027° Depth: 100 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-01210
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_126_007 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date: 09-December-2005 Position: -24.0437° 113.027° Depth: 100 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Record source :
Rowe, F.W.E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata . CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against :
WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species . . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.