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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	25 191906 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Amphiura spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.) Family: 25 191 Amphiuridae (brittlestars) - show full list Common Name: [a brittlestar] Organism Type: a brittlestar Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 25 191000     Amphiuridae Child Codes: 25 191018     Amphiura acrisia 25 191108     Amphiura alba 25 191019     Amphiura ambigua 25 191109     Amphiura amokurae 25 191091     Amphiura angularis 25 191110     Amphiura annulifera 25 191111     Amphiura argentea 25 191081     Amphiura aster 25 191057     Amphiura belgicae 25 191020     Amphiura bidentata 25 191021     Amphiura brachyactis 25 191022     Amphiura catephes 25 191023     Amphiura constricta 25 191082     Amphiura correcta 25 191083     Amphiura dawbini 25 191024     Amphiura diacritica 25 191115     Amphiura dikellacantha 25 191025     Amphiura dolia 25 191026     Amphiura duncani 25 191027     Amphiura elandiformis 25 191092     Amphiura eugeniae 25 191112     Amphiura heraldica 25 191084     Amphiura hinemoae 25 191058     Amphiura joubini 25 191113     Amphiura lanceolata 25 191085     Amphiura latisquama 25 191028     Amphiura leptotata 25 191029     Amphiura leucaspis 25 191030     Amphiura lymani 25 191031     Amphiura magellanica 25 191032     Amphiura magnisquama 25 191033     Amphiura maxima 25 191034     Amphiura micra 25 191035     Amphiura microsoma 25 191116     Amphiura modesta 25 191036     Amphiura multiremula 25 191037     Amphiura nannodes 25 191046     Amphiura octacantha 25 191047     Amphiura parviscutata 25 191038     Amphiura perplexus 25 191039     Amphiura poecila 25 191114     Amphiura praefecta 25 191040     Amphiura psilopora 25 191041     Amphiura ptena 25 191086     Amphiura pusilla 25 191087     Amphiura rosea 25 191042     Amphiura septemspinosa 25 191061     Amphiura sp. MoV 2722 25 191062     Amphiura sp. MoV 3579 25 191068     Amphiura sp. MoV 5508 25 191069     Amphiura sp. MoV 5511 25 191064     Amphiura sp. MoV 5512 25 191070     Amphiura sp. MoV 5514 25 191071     Amphiura sp. MoV 5515 25 191065     Amphiura sp. MoV 5516 25 191072     Amphiura sp. MoV 5517 25 191073     Amphiura sp. MoV 5519 25 191074     Amphiura sp. MoV 5520 25 191096     Amphiura sp. MoV 6895 25 191097     Amphiura sp. MoV 6896 25 191088     Amphiura spinipes 25 191043     Amphiura stictacantha 25 191048     Amphiura tenuis 25 191044     Amphiura trisacantha 25 191089     Amphiura tutanekai 25 191045     Amphiura velox 99 250249     Amphiura sp.

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Taxon Notes:	This genus as currently recognised is probably polyphyletic, and is in need of revision. 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:77a19faf-cdad-48b2-b546-e8f8c6d1d095 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123613 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-04-16 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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