CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Asteroidea (class) » Forcipulatida (order) » Stichasteridae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 154901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Allostichaster spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 154 Stichasteridae (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 154912 Stichasteridae
Child Codes:	25 154030 Allostichaster farquhari 25 154029 Allostichaster insignis 25 154027 Allostichaster palmula 25 154005 Allostichaster polyplax 25 154006 Allostichaster regularis 99 250361 Allostichaster n. sp. 1 99 250362 Allostichaster n. sp. 2

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Occurrence locations [5] 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:7e987ee7-d461-4e64-9177-dd30b642bcda Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178783 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-04-16 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Mah, C.L., Foltz, D.W., 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 162: 646-660.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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