CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	25 154911 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Asteriidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 154 Asteriidae (seastars) - show full list
Common Name:	seastars
Organism Type:	a seastar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 154000 Asteriidae, Stichasteridae
Child Codes:	25 154913 Anasterias spp. 25 154914 Asterias spp. 25 154915 Astrostole spp. 25 154905 Coronaster spp. 25 154916 Coscinasterias spp. 25 154917 Diplasterias spp. 25 154906 Lysasterias spp. 25 154919 Perissasterias spp. 25 154920 Psalidaster spp. 25 154903 Sclerasterias spp. 25 154923 Taranuiaster spp. 25 154924 Uniophora spp.

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Occurrence locations [3] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:b4550a08-e602-49d7-a31e-c5101e08e215 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123121 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:	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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