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Solaster dawsoni Verrill, 1880 
AphiaID: 292720

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Solasteridae (Family) > Solaster (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Solaster Forbes, 1839
Sources  additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1911). Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the US National Museum, 76: xiii+420 pp.122 pls. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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[show all]		 Subspecies Solaster dawsoni arcticus Verrill, 1914
Subspecies Solaster dawsoni dawsoni Verrill, 1880

Variety Solaster dawsoni var. arctica Verrill, 1914 accepted as Solaster dawsoni arcticus Verrill, 1914
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution British Columbia [details]
California [details]
Oregon [details]
Washington (State) [details]
Feedingtype  adult: predator [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Images 
Solaster dawsoni From British Columbia, Canada
Solaster dawsoni From British Columbia, Canada
added on 2009-03-13 - author: Wirtz, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2009-03-13 12:14:04

Solaster dawsoni
Solaster dawsoni
added on 2012-10-09 - author: Ed Bowlby, NOAA (NOAA–OE) ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:292720
Taxonomic
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2008-01-24 09:19:09Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Solaster dawsoni Verrill, 1880. 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=292720 on 2013-06-18
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