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Orthasterias koehleri (deLoriol, 1897) 
AphiaID: 255048

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) > Orthasterias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Orthasterias Verrill, 1914
Synonymised
taxa
  Asterias koehleri de Loriol, 1897
Orthasterias biordinata Verrill, 1914
Orthasterias columbiana Verrill, 1914 (Synonym according to Fisher (1923))
Orthasterias leptostyla Fisher, 1928 (Forma of O. koehleri)
Orthasterias montereyensis Fisher, 1928 (A forma of O. koehleri)
Sources  from synonym: Fisher, W.K. (1928). Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 2. Forcipulata (part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1–245 6 figs pls 1–81. [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 Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255048
Taxonomic
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2007-12-28 03:06:27Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Orthasterias koehleri (deLoriol, 1897). 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=255048 on 2013-05-19
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