Stichaster australis (Verrill, 1871) 
AphiaID: 291604

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Forcipulatacea > Forcipulatida > Stichasteridae > Stichaster

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Coelasterias Verrill, 1871
Parent		Stichaster Müller & Troschel, 1840
Synonymised taxa		Coelasterias australis Verrill, 1871 Uniophora granifera Farquhar, 1878 (Probable synonym according to Benham (1909))
Sources		additional source: McKnight D.G. (2006). The marine fauna of New Zealand, Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 120: 1-187. [details] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English reef starfish  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		New Zealand [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291604
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-01-19 09:31:50Z   created   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Stichaster australis (Verrill, 1871). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291604 on 2013-05-24