WoRMS taxon details
Pentaceros franklini Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 378512
AphiaID: 378512
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Pentaceros (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Accepted name | Protoreaster nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Pentaceros Gray, 1840 accepted as Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||
| 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] source of synonymy: Fisher, W.K. (1919). Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3(100): 1-547. 156 pls. [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378512 | |||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Pentaceros franklini 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=378512 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||
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