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Abyssaster tara (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) 
AphiaID: 213254

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Porcellanasteridae (Family) > Abyssaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Abyssaster Madsen, 1961
Synonymised
taxa		  Hyphalaster tara Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (look up in IMIS) [details]

original description (from synonym): Wood-Mason, J.; Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII, Sixth series(XLVIII): 427-452, plate XVII (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

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
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  Distribution: Distribution: western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213254
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-07-15 21:09:17Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-26 07:19:20Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2009-01-17 21:50:33Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Abyssaster tara (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891). 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=213254 on 2013-06-19
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