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Prorodontidae Kent, 1881

AphiaID

163182 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:163182)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Prorodontida

Direct children (4)

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Genus Hexasterias Cleve, 1900
Genus Polyasterias A.Meunier, 1910
Genus Prorodon Ehrenberg, 1834
Genus Pseudoprorodon Kahl, 1930 accepted as Prorodon Ehrenberg, 1834 (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Prorodontidae Kent, 1881. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=163182 on 2025-09-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-05 09:59:09Z

created

Braeckman, Ulrike

2009-10-21 08:05:26Z

changed

Kihara, Terue Cristina

2009-11-16 12:53:55Z

checked

Warren, Alan

Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Language	Name
Japanese	プロロドン科	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prorodontidae)
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