WoRMS taxon details
Epidontaster Koehler, 1920
AphiaID: 146081
AphiaID: 146081
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Odontasteridae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym according to Fisher (1940)) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Odontaster Verrill, 1880 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Epidontaster pentagonalis Koehler, 1920 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Koehler, R. (1920). Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition C8: 1-308. [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] source of synonymy: Fisher, W.K. (1940). Asteroidea. Discovery Reports 20: 69-306. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Epidontaster pentagonalis Koehler, 1920 accepted as Odontaster meridionalis (E. A. Smith, 1876) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146081 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Epidontaster Koehler, 1920. 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=146081 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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