WoRMS taxon details
Gymnasteria Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 203963
AphiaID: 203963
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Asteropseidae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym according to Muller and Troschel (1842)) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Asteropsis Müller & Troschel, 1840 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Gymnasteria biserrata von Martens, 1866 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) Species Gymnasteria carinifera von Martens, 1866 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) Species Gymnasteria inermis Gray, 1840 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) Species Gymnasteria lissotergum Benham, 1911 accepted as Asteropsis lissoterga (Benham, 1911) Species Gymnasteria spinosa Gray, 1840 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) Species Gymnasteria valvulata Perrier, 1875 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: Type species: none designated, originally included nominal species: Gymnasteria spinosa Gray, 1840; Gymnasteria inermis Gray, 1840 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:203963 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Gymnasteria Gray, 1840. 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=203963 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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