WoRMS taxon details
Pentaceros grayi (Bell, 1884)
AphiaID: 211873
AphiaID: 211873
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Pentaceros (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Synonym according to Doderlein (1936)) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Pentaceraster multispinus (von Martens, 1866) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Pentaceros Gray, 1840 accepted as Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
source of synonymy: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Remark: In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details] Synonymy: But see synonymy remark with Oreaster grayi Bell, 1884. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211873 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pentaceros grayi (Bell, 1884). 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=211873 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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