WoRMS taxon details
Porania Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 123320
AphiaID: 123320
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Poraniidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Goniaster templetoni Thomson in Forbes, 1839 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Poraniidae Perrier, 1875 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Glabraster A.H. Clark, 1916 (Synonym according to Fisher (1940)) Gymnasterias (synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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: 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: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (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] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subgenus Porania (Porania) Gray, 1840
Species Porania antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1876) represented as Porania (Porania) antarctica E. A. Smith, 1876 (alternate representation) Species Porania magellanica Studer, 1876 represented as Porania (Porania) antarctica magellanica Studer, 1876 (alternate representation, Subspecies according to Madsen (1956) and A.M. Clark (1984).) Subgenus Porania (Chondraster) Verrill, 1895 accepted as Chondraster Verrill, 1895 Subgenus Porania (Chondraster) Madsen, 1959 accepted as Porania (Porania) Gray, 1840
Species Porania austera Verrill, 1914 accepted as Marginaster austerus Verrill, 1899 accepted as Marginaster pectinatus Perrier, 1881 Species Porania borealis (Verril, 1878) accepted as Poraniomorpha (Poraniomorpha) hispida (M. Sars, 1872) Species Porania gibbosa Leach in Gray, 1840 accepted as Porania (Porania) pulvillus (O.F. Müller, 1776) Species Porania glaber Sladen, 1889 accepted as Porania (Porania) antarctica E. A. Smith, 1876 Species Porania grandis Verrill, 1878 accepted as Chondraster grandis (Verrill, 1878) Species Porania insignis Verrill, 1895 accepted as Porania (Porania) pulvillus insignis Verrill, 1895 Species Porania patagonica Perrier, 1878 accepted as Porania magellanica Studer, 1876 represented as Porania (Porania) antarctica magellanica Studer, 1876 Species Porania spiculata Sladen, 1889 accepted as Porania (Porania) antarctica E. A. Smith, 1876 Species Porania spinulosa Verrill, 1880 accepted as Poraniomorpha (Poraniomorpha) hispida (M. Sars, 1872) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123320 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Danis, B.; Hansson, H. (2013). Porania. 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=123320 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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