Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
phylum
Data links
LSID JSON / WMS /RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3b2da402-9136-4f10-a757-6a28e10c7867

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=phylum:ECHINODERMATA
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence
 Recorded In Australia

Occurrence records map

occurrence map map legend

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Online resources

Encyclopedia of Life
Description, Images
Flickr EOL
Images, Occurrence record
Guide to the Marine Zooplankton of South Eastern Australia
Distribution, Morphology, Ecology

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
ECHINODERMATA

Common Names

Common name Source
Echinoderms
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Brittle Stars
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Feather Stars
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Sand Dollars
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Sea Cucumbers
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Sea Lilies
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Sea Urchins
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Starfish
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Trepang
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ECHINODERMATA  Recorded in Australia
class
ASTEROIDEA: Starfish  Recorded in Australia
class
CRINOIDEA: Feather Stars  Recorded in Australia
class
ECHINOIDEA: Sea Urchins  Recorded in Australia
class
HOLOTHUROIDEA: Sea Cucumbers  Recorded in Australia
class
OPHIUROIDEA: Brittle Stars  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

Hint: click on chart elements to view that subset of records

Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA

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