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Asteroidea taxon details
Meridiastra occidens
(O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
AphiaID
459552
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:459552)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asterozoa
Asteroidea
Ambuloasteroidea
Neoasteroidea
Valvatacea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Meridiastra
Meridiastra occidens
Status
accepted
Rank
Species
Parent
Meridiastra
O'Loughlin, 2002
Original name
Patiriella occidens
O' Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003
Synonymised names
Patiriella occidens
O' Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003
·
unaccepted
(as per O'Loughlin & Waters (2004))
Environment
marine,
brackish
,
fresh
,
terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Patiriella occidens
O' Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003
)
O'Loughlin, P.M., J.M. Waters, and M.S. Roy. (2003). A molecular and morphological review of the asterinid <i>Patiriella gunnii</i> (Gray) (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs of the Museum Victoria 60(2): 181-195.
,
available online at
https://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/3979/60_2_OLoughlin.pdf
[details]
Taxonomic citation
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database.
Meridiastra occidens
(O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459552 on 2026-10-09
Taxonomic edit history
Date
action
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2010-02-27 02:02:44Z
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Mah, Christopher
2020-01-04 05:20:53Z
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Sources (1)
Documented distribution (0)
Attributes (3)
Links (4)
original description
(of
Patiriella occidens
O' Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003
)
O'Loughlin, P.M., J.M. Waters, and M.S. Roy. (2003). A molecular and morphological review of the asterinid <i>Patiriella gunnii</i> (Gray) (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs of the Museum Victoria 60(2): 181-195.
,
available online at
https://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/3979/60_2_OLoughlin.pdf
[details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Definitions
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meridiastra occidens)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
(from synonym
Patiriella occidens
O' Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003
)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
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