WoRMS taxon details
Diplodontias Fisher, 1908
AphiaID: 177910
AphiaID: 177910
| 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 | Pentagonaster dilatatus Perrier, 1875 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Goniodon Perrier, 1894 (A junior homonym of Goniodon Herrick 1888 (Mollusca) but replaceable by DiplodontiasFisher 1908.) | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: 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] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Diplodontias dilatatus (Perrier, 1875) Species Diplodontias miliaris (Gray, 1847) Species Diplodontias paxillosus (Gray, 1847) Species Diplodontias robustus (Fell, 1953) Species Diplodontias singularis (Müller & Troschel, 1843) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:177910 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Diplodontias Fisher, 1908. 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=177910 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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