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Mediaster dawsoni McKnight, 1973

368832  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368832)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Valvatida (Order)
  10. Goniasteridae (Family)
  11. Mediasterinae (Subfamily)
  12. Mediaster (Genus)
  13. Mediaster dawsoni (Species)
 unaccepted (Synonym according to McKnight (2001))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
McKnight, D.G. (1973). Additions to the asteroid fauna of New Zealand: family Goniasteridae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Records. 1(13): 171-195
page(s): 175 [details] 
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Mediaster dawsoni McKnight, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=368832 on 2025-05-15
Date
action
by
2008-10-23 02:03:00Z
created
Mah, Christopher
2017-06-28 03:01:24Z
changed
Mah, Christopher

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Nomenclature

original description McKnight, D.G. (1973). Additions to the asteroid fauna of New Zealand: family Goniasteridae. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Records. 1(13): 171-195
page(s): 175 [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Clark, H.E.S. (2001). Superfamily Goniasteracea, Family Goniasteridae. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 117: 12-139. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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