| Full name: |
World Asteroidea database UPDATED!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Asteroidea |
| Version: |
2016-03-01 |
| Release date: |
2016-03-01 |
| Authors/editors: |
Mah C.L. |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Echinodermata - Asteroidea |
| English name of the group: |
Starfish or sea stars |
|
Number of living species |
1,837 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
225 |
| Number of extinct species: |
1 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
2,549 |
| Number of common names: |
165 |
| Total number of names: |
4,777 |
| Abstract: |
The core of the World Asteroidea Database (WAD) is derived from the "Asteroid Names List" developed primarily by Ailsa M. Clark. However the WAD is complimented by numerous other echinoderm compendia (e.g., Clark & Downey's Starfishes of the Atlantic, Rowe & Gate's Zoological Catalogue of Australia, etc) and will eventually include all subsequent taxonomic changes and newly described taxa. Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the WoRMS, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: |
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea
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| Bibliographic citation: |
Mah C.L. (2025). WoRMS Asteroidea: World Asteroidea database (version 2016-03-01). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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