CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 140007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Aquilonastra cepheus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
	CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-01412 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_097_016 Survey: SS200705 [details] Date of image: 2007-06-23 00:00 Position: -17.7684° S 120.719° E Depth: 109.3 metres Image by: Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family:	25 140 Asterinidae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a seastar]
Common Names List:	seastar starfish
Organism Type:	a seastar
Synonyms:	Asterina cepheus
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 140905 Aquilonastra spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [2] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6c3827a1-0b36-4a1f-90cf-30d9df4c2200 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	4667
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:459525 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Rowe, F.W.E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata. CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	O'Loughlin, P.M., Waters, J.M., 2004. A molecular and morphological revision of genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 61(1): 1-40.

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