The World Asteroidea Database - Tamaria Gray, 1840

Asteroidea taxon details

Tamaria Gray, 1840

AphiaID

178195 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178195)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Tamaria fusca Gray, 1840

Parent

Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870

Direct children (21)

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Species Tamaria dubiosa (Koehler, 1910)
Species Tamaria floridae (Perrier, 1881)
Species Tamaria fusca Gray, 1840
Species Tamaria giffordensis McKnight in H.E.S. Clark & D.G. McKnight, 2001
Species Tamaria halperni Downey, 1971
Species Tamaria lithosora H.L. Clark, 1921
Species Tamaria marmorata (Michelin, 1844)
Species Tamaria megaloplax (Bell, 1884)
Species Tamaria obstipa Ziesenhenne, 1942
Species Tamaria ornata (Koehler, 1910)
Species Tamaria pusilla (Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Species Tamaria scleroderma (Fisher, 1906)
Species Tamaria tenella (Fisher, 1906)
Species Tamaria triseriata (Fisher, 1906)
Species Tamaria tumescens (Koehler, 1910)
Species Tamaria ajax Livingstone, 1932 accepted as Tamaria tumescens (Koehler, 1910) (Synonym according to A.M. Clark (1967))
Species Tamaria hirsuta (Koehler, 1910) accepted as Tamaria megaloplax (Bell, 1884) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1938))
Species Tamaria passiflora Downey, 1971 accepted as Astroglypha passiflora (Downey, 1971) (transferred to Astroglypha by Mah 2021)
Species Tamaria propetumescens Livingstone, 1932 accepted as Tamaria tumescens (Koehler, 1910) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1938))
Species Tamaria stria Downey, 1975 accepted as Linckia columbiae Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Mah, 2021)
Species Tamaria tubifera (Sladen, 1889) accepted as Tamaria megaloplax (Bell, 1884) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1946))

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 283 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Tamaria Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178195 on 2024-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-29 10:12:16Z

created

Braeckman, Ulrike

2008-10-19 23:51:53Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2013-09-10 12:52:36Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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original description Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 283 [details]

basis of record Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 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

From other sources

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

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