WoRMS taxon details
Doraster Downey, 1970
178769 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178769)
accepted
Genus
- Species Doraster constellatus Downey, 1970
- Species Doraster qawashqari Moyana & Larrain Prat, 1976 accepted as Myxoderma qawashqari (Moyana & Larrain Prat, 1976) (Referred to Myxoderma by Mah (2007).)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Downey, M. E. (1970). Zorocallida, new order, and Doraster constellatus, new genus and species, with notes on the Zoroasteridae (Echinodermata; Asteroidea). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> (64): 1-18., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.64 [details] Available for editors 
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Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Doraster Downey, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178769 on 2025-04-16
Date
action
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2005-08-05 07:22:50Z
created
Aracina, Claudia
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Nomenclature
original description
Downey, M. E. (1970). Zorocallida, new order, and Doraster constellatus, new genus and species, with notes on the Zoroasteridae (Echinodermata; Asteroidea). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> (64): 1-18., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.64 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]basis of record Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
