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Pentaceraster Doderlein, 1916 
AphiaID: 204070

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Oreasteridae Fisher, 1911
Sources  original description: Doderlein, L. (1916). Uber die Gattung Oreaster und Verwandte.Zoologischen Jahrbuchern 40: 409-440 [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 Pentaceraster affinis (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster alveolatus (Perrier, 1875)
Species Pentaceraster chinensis (Gray, 1840)
Species Pentaceraster cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Species Pentaceraster decipiens (Bell, 1884)
Species Pentaceraster gracilis (Lütken, 1871)
Species Pentaceraster horridus (Gray, 1840)
Species Pentaceraster magnificus (Goto, 1914)
Species Pentaceraster mammillatus (Audouin, 1826)
Species Pentaceraster multispinus (von Martens, 1866)
Species Pentaceraster regulus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster sibogae Doderlein, 1916
Species Pentaceraster tuberculatus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster westermanni (Lutken, 1871)

Species Pentaceraster australis (Lutken, 1871) accepted as Pentaceraster regulus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster australis Doderlein, 1916 accepted as Pentaster hybridus Doderlein, 1936
Species Pentaceraster cebuana Doderlein, 1936 accepted as Pentaceraster regulus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster crassimana Doderlein, 1936 accepted as Pentaceraster multispinus (von Martens, 1866)
Species Pentaceraster mammillatus Tortonese, 1960 accepted as Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Pentaceraster odhneri Doderlein, 1926 accepted as Pentaceraster regulus (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Pentaceraster orientalis (Muller & Troschel, 1842) accepted as Pentaceraster chinensis (Gray, 1840)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Remark: Type species: Asterias mammillatus Audouin, 1827 by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Taxonomy: The status of the several nominal species of Pentaceraster from the Japanese/Asian region is badly in need of reassessment. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204070
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1999-06-12 17:04:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 10:30:23Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-12-07 02:46:14Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pentaceraster Doderlein, 1916. 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=204070 on 2013-05-24
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