CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Ophiuroidea (class) » Ophiurida (order) » Amphiuridae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 191000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Amphiuridae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 191 Amphiuridae (brittlestars) - show full list
Common Name:	brittlestars
Organism Type:	a brittlestar
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	25 191903 Amphiodia spp. 25 191902 Amphioplus spp. 25 191904 Amphipholis spp. 25 191905 Amphistigma spp. 25 191906 Amphiura spp. 25 191907 Dougaloplus spp. 25 191901 Ophiocentrus spp. 25 191910 Ophiodaphne spp. 25 191909 Ophiosphaera spp.

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Occurrence locations [6] 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:84229c82-a2db-43a2-9989-4e9072277d62 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123206 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 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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