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Smilasterias clarkailsa O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1990 
AphiaID: 234954

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Stichasteridae (Family) > Smilasterias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Smilasterias Sladen, 1889
Sources  original description: O'Loughlin, P.M. and T.D. O'Hara. (1990). A review of the genus Smilasterias (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), with descriptions of two new species from south-eastern Australia, one a gastric brooder, and a new species from Macquarie Island. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 50(2): 307-323. [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M.and Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies, 6: pp. 229-347 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Danis B & Jangoux M, 2006. The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species: Asteroidea. World Wide Web electronic publication., available online at http://www.scarmarbin.be [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Macquarie Island [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234954
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-12-04 08:41:33Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2007-12-29 01:34:11Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
2008-12-11 23:57:58Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Smilasterias clarkailsa O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1990. 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=234954 on 2013-06-19
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