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Acodontaster waitei (Koehler, 1920) 
AphiaID: 172773

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Odontasteridae (Family) > Acodontaster (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920)
Rank Species
Parent Acodontaster Verrill, 1899
Synonymised
taxa		  Metadontaster waitei Koehler, 1920 (A synonym according to Fisher (1940))
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]
MacRobertson Land [details]
Palmer Archipelago [details]
Subantarctic Isles [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Synonymy: considered a synonym of Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) according to Stampanato & Jangoux 1993: 175. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172773
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-12 13:53:46Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-29 02:28:08Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-12-07 17:24:06Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acodontaster waitei (Koehler, 1920). 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=172773 on 2013-05-22
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