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Asteroidea taxon details
Meridiastra mortenseni
(O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002)
AphiaID
459551
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:459551)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asterozoa
Asteroidea
Ambuloasteroidea
Neoasteroidea
Valvatacea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Meridiastra
Meridiastra mortenseni
Status
accepted
Rank
Species
Parent
Meridiastra
O'Loughlin, 2002
Original name
Patiriella mortenseni
O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002
Synonymised names
Patiriella mortenseni
O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002
·
unaccepted
Environment
marine,
brackish
,
fresh
,
terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Patiriella mortenseni
O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002
)
O'Loughlin, P. M.; Waters, J. M. (2002). Description of a new species of <i>Patiriella</i> from New Zealand, and review of <i>Patiriella regularis</i> (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) based on morphological and molecular data. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 32(4), 697-711.
,
available online at
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014223.2002.9517716?needAccess=true
page(s): 706
[details]
Taxonomic citation
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database.
Meridiastra mortenseni
(O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459551 on 2026-09-30
Taxonomic edit history
Date
action
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2010-02-27 02:02:44Z
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Mah, Christopher
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Sources (1)
Documented distribution (1)
Attributes (3)
Links (4)
original description
(of
Patiriella mortenseni
O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002
)
O'Loughlin, P. M.; Waters, J. M. (2002). Description of a new species of <i>Patiriella</i> from New Zealand, and review of <i>Patiriella regularis</i> (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) based on morphological and molecular data. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 32(4), 697-711.
,
available online at
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014223.2002.9517716?needAccess=true
page(s): 706
[details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Definitions
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meridiastra mortenseni)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
(from synonym
Patiriella mortenseni
O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2002
)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
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