Asterias

Summary

Asterias is a taxon^[1]. Asterias ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month, #1,615 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Asterias's image is recorded as Asterias rubens.jpg^[3].
• Asterias's instance of is recorded as taxon^[4].
• Asterias's taxon rank is recorded as genus^[5].
• Asterias's parent taxon is recorded as Asteriidae^[6].
• Asterias's taxon name is recorded as Asterias^[7].
• Asterias's Commons category is recorded as Asterias^[8].
• Asterias's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D047271^[9].
• Asterias's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021b36^[10].
• Asterias's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.500.408.765.070^[11].
• Asterias's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7601^[12].
• Asterias's ITIS TSN is recorded as 157215^[13].
• Asterias's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 72957^[14].
• Asterias's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 31411^[15].
• Asterias's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2270462^[16].
• Asterias's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 123219^[17].
• Asterias's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Asterias^[18].
• Asterias's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[19].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Asteracanthion^[20].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Stellonia^[21].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Allasterias^[22].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Asteracanthium^[23].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Parasterias^[24].
• Asterias's taxon synonym is recorded as Uraster^[25].
• Asterias's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 69C553EB-0C82-437D-BF4E-E21F10A7C7AA^[26].
• Asterias's Dyntaxa ID is recorded as 1004743^[27].

Why It Matters

Asterias ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month, #1,615 of 195,241).^[2] Asterias has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]