CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Asteroidea (class) » Paxillosida (order) » Porcellanasteridae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 113000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Porcellanasteridae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 113 Porcellanasteridae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	seastars
Common Names List:	starfish
Organism Type:	a seastar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 110000 Paxillosida
Child Codes:	25 113901 Damnaster spp. 25 113902 Eremicaster spp. 25 113903 Hyphalaster spp. 25 113904 Porcellanaster spp. 25 113905 Sidonaster spp. 25 113906 Styracaster spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6ad86770-82f9-440a-80b8-2f54f20069d0 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123130 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2020-08-24 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report