Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 25 121000 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Podosphaerasteridae
- Rank
- Family
- CAAB category
- 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
- Family
- 25 121 Podosphaerasteridae (seastars) - show full list
- Common Name
- seastars
- Organism Type
- a seastar
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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25 120000
Valvatida
- Child Codes
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25 121901
Podosphaeraster 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
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) NZOR-6-76726
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
- Record source
- 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.
- Scientific Name verified against
- WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.