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Abyssaster tara (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

213254  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213254)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Paxillosida (Order)
  10. Porcellanasteridae (Family)
  11. Abyssaster (Genus)
  12. Abyssaster tara (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Hyphalaster tara Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692
page(s): 434 [details] 
Distribution Distribution: western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989).  
Distribution Distribution: western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Abyssaster tara (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213254 on 2025-04-27
Date
action
by
1999-07-15 21:09:17Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-26 07:19:20Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2009-01-17 21:50:33Z
changed
Mah, Christopher

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Nomenclature

original description (of Hyphalaster tara Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692
page(s): 434 [details] 

basis of record Clark, A. M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida. <em>In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies.</em> 3: 225-347. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

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

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Unreviewed
Distribution Distribution: western Indian Ocean (A.M. Clark, 1989). [details]
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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Abyssaster tara) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (3 records) 

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