WoRMS taxon details
Fromia Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 123311
AphiaID: 123311
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Asterias milleporella Lamarck, 1816 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [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.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] status source: Mah, C.L. and D.W. Foltz. (2011). Molecular Phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 769-788., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00659.x/full [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Fromia armata Koehler, 1910 Species Fromia balanse Perrier, 1875 Species Fromia elegans H.L. Clark, 1921 Species Fromia eusticha Fisher, 1913 Species Fromia ghardaqana Mortensen, 1938 Species Fromia hadracantha H.L. Clark, 1921 Species Fromia hemiopla Fisher, 1913 Species Fromia indica (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia milleporella (Lamarck, 1816) Species Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia nodosa A.M. Clark, 1967 Species Fromia pacifica H.L. Clark, 1921 Species Fromia mexicana Perrier, 1884 (nomen nudum, according to H.L. Clark (1921)-undescribed) Subgenus Fromia (Metrodira) Perrier, 1878 accepted as Metrodira Gray, 1840
Species Fromia elegans Engel, 1938 accepted as Fromia indica (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia ghardaqana Tortonese, 1979 accepted as Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia japonica Perrier, 1881 accepted as Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia major Koehler, 1895 accepted as Fromia monilis (Perrier, 1869) Species Fromia narcissae Perrier, 1885 accepted as Narcissia canariensis (d'Orbigny, 1839) Species Fromia pistoria (Muller & Troschel, 1842) accepted as Fromia milleporella (Lamarck, 1816) Species Fromia polypora (H.L. Clark, 1916) accepted as Austrofromia polypora (H.L. Clark, 1916) Species Fromia schultzei Doderlein, 1910 accepted as Austrofromia schultzei (Döderlein, 1910) Species Fromia tumida Bell, 1882 accepted as Fromia indica (Perrier, 1869) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123311 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Fromia Gray, 1840. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123311 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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