CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Ophiuroidea (class) » Euryalida (order) » Euryalidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 170902 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Astroceras spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 170 Euryalidae (snakestars) - show full list
Common Name:	[a basketstar]
Organism Type:	a basketstar
Synonyms:	Asteroceras spp. (mis-spelling)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	25 170000 Euryalidae
Child Codes:	25 170013 Astroceras compar 25 170001 Astroceras elegans 25 170006 Astroceras kermadecensis 25 170008 Astroceras pergamenum 25 170002 Astroceras pleiades
Previous Codes (if any):	25 170903

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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:b195805d-daf0-4700-a3f1-2500c82c80c8 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242444 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:	O'Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B., Martynov, A., 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification., European Journal of Taxonomy, Vol. 416: 1-35. . doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.416 doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.416

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