WoRMS taxon details
Acodontaster Verrill, 1899
AphiaID: 172592
AphiaID: 172592
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Odontasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Gnathaster elongatus Sladen, 1889 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Heuresaster Bell, 1908 (Synonym of Acodontaster according to Fisher (1940).) Metadontaster Koehler, 1920 (A synonym according to Fisher (1940)) Pseudontaster Koehler, 1912 Tridontaster Koehler, 1920 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Verrill, A.E. (1899). Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(1): 145-234 [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: 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] from synonym: Koehler, R. (1920). Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition C8: 1-308. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Acodontaster capitatus (Koehler, 1912) Species Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) Species Acodontaster elongatus (Sladen, 1889) Species Acodontaster hodgsoni (Bell, 1908) Species Acodontaster marginatus (Koehler, 1912) Species Acodontaster abbreviatus Koehler, 1923 accepted as Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) Species Acodontaster ceramoideus Fisher, 1940 accepted as Acodontaster elongatus (Sladen, 1889) Species Acodontaster cremeus (Ludwig, 1903) accepted as Acodontaster elongatus (Sladen, 1889) Species Acodontaster granuliferus Koehler, 1920 accepted as Acodontaster elongatus (Sladen, 1889) Species Acodontaster miliaris Verrill, 1899 accepted as Diplodontias miliaris (Gray, 1847) Species Acodontaster waitei (Koehler, 1920) accepted as Acodontaster conspicuus (Koehler, 1920) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172592 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Acodontaster Verrill, 1899. 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=172592 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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