CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 122922 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hippasteria spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 122 Goniasteridae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a seastar]
Organism Type:	a seastar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 122000 Goniasteridae
Child Codes:	25 122077 Hippasteria falklandica 25 122078 Hippasteria mcknighti 25 122079 Hippasteria muscipula 25 122003 Hippasteria phrygiana

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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

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

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b7c17ebf-5004-47f4-894c-06cfaa303b05 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123297 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-04-16 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Mah, C.L., Neill, K., Eléaume, M., Foltz, D., 2014. New species and global revision of Hippasteria (Hippasterinae: Goniasteridae; Asteroidea; Echinodermata)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 171: 422-456.

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