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Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) 
AphiaID: 172767

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Odontasteridae (Family) > Acodontaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acodontaster Verrill, 1899
Synonymised
taxa
  Acodontaster abbreviatus Koehler, 1923 (A synonym of A. conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) according to Fisher (1940))
Acodontaster elongatus var. abbreviatus (Koehler, 1923)
Acodontaster waitei (Koehler, 1920) (synonym)
Pseudontaster conspicuus Koehler, 1920
Sources  original description: Koehler, R. (1920). Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition C8: 1-308.  [details]

basis of record: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS[details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adélie Coast [details]
Balleny Islands [details]
Graham Land [details]
MacRobertson Land (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Palmer Archipelago (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ross Sea [details]
South Georgian and the South Sandwich Islands [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Subantarctic Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Terra Nova Bay [details]
Victoria Land [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172767
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-12 13:53:46Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-06-11 12:57:51Z  checked  Danis, Bruno
2008-10-24 23:33:30Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-12-07 17:24:06Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Danis, B. (2013). Acodontaster conspicuus. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172767 on 2013-05-22
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