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Plutonaster knoxi Fell, 1958 
AphiaID: 291700

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Astropectinidae (Family) > Plutonaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Plutonaster Sladen, 1889
Sources  original description: Fell, H.B. (1958). Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington 24: 1-40, available online at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Vic24Zool.html [details]

additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [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 New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291700
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-21 08:09:52Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Plutonaster knoxi Fell, 1958. 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=291700 on 2013-05-19
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