Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) 
AphiaID: 172767

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Asterozoa > Asteroidea > Valvatacea > Valvatida > Odontasteridae > Acodontaster

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Acodontaster Verrill, 1899
Synonymised taxa		Acodontaster abbreviatus Koehler, 1923 (A synonym of A. conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) according to Fisher (1940)) Acodontaster elongatus var. abbreviatus (Koehler, 1923) Acodontaster waitei (Koehler, 1920) (synonym) Pseudontaster conspicuus Koehler, 1920
Sources		original description: Koehler, R. (1920). Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition C8: 1-308.  [details] basis of record: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details] context source: 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		Adélie Coast [details] Balleny Islands [details] Graham Land [details] MacRobertson Land (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Palmer Archipelago (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Ross Sea [details] South Georgian and the South Sandwich Islands [details] Southern Ocean [details] Subantarctic Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Terra Nova Bay [details] Victoria Land [details]
Links		To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172767
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-12 13:53:46Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-06-11 12:57:51Z   checked   Danis, Bruno 2008-10-24 23:33:30Z   changed   Mah, Christopher 2008-12-07 17:24:06Z   changed   Mah, Christopher
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		Citation: Mah, C.; Danis, B. (2013). Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172767 on 2013-05-25