WoRMS taxon details
Chitonaster Sladen, 1889
AphiaID: 172583
AphiaID: 172583
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pentoplia H.E.S. Clark, 1971 (synonymy according to Mah, 2011) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details] basis of record: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] from synonym: Danis B & Jangoux M, 2006. The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species: Asteroidea. World Wide Web electronic publication., available online at http://www.scarmarbin.be [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark AM. An index of names of recent Asteroidea. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) Echinoderm Studies, volumes 2-6 . Balkema: Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark,H.E.S. 1971. Pentopliidae, a new family of Asteroidea from the South Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 21: 545-551. [details] [view taxon] taxonomy source: Mah, C.L. (2011). Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus and three new species with an overview and a key to taxa. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Chitonaster cataphractus Sladen, 1889 Species Chitonaster felli (H.E.S. Clark, 1971) Species Chitonaster johannae Koehler, 1908 Species Chitonaster trangae Mah, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172583 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Chitonaster Sladen, 1889. 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=172583 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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