WoRMS name details
Myriastra Sollas, 1886
184801 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184801)
unaccepted (junior synonym)
Genus
Myriastra subtilis Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta subtilis (Sollas, 1886) (type by subsequent designation)
- Subgenus Myriastra (Pilochrota) Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta Schmidt, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Myriastra (Pilochrota) haeckeli (Sollas, 1886) accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Myriastra addita Topsent, 1938 accepted as Stelletta addita (Topsent, 1938) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra anancora (Sollas, 1886) accepted as Stelletta anancora (Sollas, 1886)
- Species Myriastra biformis Brøndsted, 1924 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 (junior synonym)
- Species Myriastra brevidens (Topsent, 1897) accepted as Stelletta brevidens (Topsent, 1897)
- Species Myriastra cavernosa Dendy, 1916 accepted as Stelletta cavernosa (Dendy, 1916) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra clavosa (Ridley, 1884) accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra crassispicula (Sollas, 1886) accepted as Stelletta crassispicula (Sollas, 1886) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra debilis (Thiele, 1900) accepted as Stelletta debilis Thiele, 1900 (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra digitifera Lévi, 1959 accepted as Stelletta digitifera (Lévi, 1959) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra fibrosa (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Stelletta fibrosa (Schmidt, 1870) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra kallitetilla Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Stelletta kallitetilla (Laubenfels, 1936) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra lactea (Carter, 1871) accepted as Stelletta lactea Carter, 1871 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra osculifera Lévi, 1964 accepted as Stelletta osculifera (Lévi, 1964)
- Species Myriastra paucistellata Lévi, 1952 accepted as Stelletta paucistellata (Lévi, 1952) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra purpurea (Ridley, 1884) accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra quadrata Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884
- Species Myriastra retroclada Lévi, 1967 accepted as Stelletta retroclada (Lévi, 1967) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra siemensi (Keller, 1891) accepted as Stelletta siemensi Keller, 1891
- Species Myriastra simplicifurca Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Species Myriastra simplicissima (Schmidt, 1868) accepted as Stelletta simplicissima (Schmidt, 1868) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra subtilis Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta subtilis (Sollas, 1886) (genus transfer)
- Species Myriastra tethyopsis (Carter, 1880) accepted as Stelletta tethyopsis Carter, 1880
- Species Myriastra toxodonta Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Sollas, W.J. (1886). Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. <em>Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series).</em> 5: 177-199.
page(s): 187 [details]
page(s): 187 [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Myriastra Sollas, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=184801 on 2025-05-17
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Sollas, W.J. (1886). Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. <em>Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series).</em> 5: 177-199.
page(s): 187 [details]
basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002[2004]). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 187 [details]
basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002[2004]). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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Spelling Sollas (1886, 1888) spelled the genus name Myriastra also as Myriaster without apologizing or making a correcting note. In the 1886 Preliminary paper, the first use of either name was Myriastra (on p. 186), but when describing and naming the various species in that paper he consistently used Myriaster (pp. 188-189). In the definitive monograph of 1888, he used Myriastra, citing the species erected in 1886 as members of Myriaster as synonyms of renamed Myriastra species, which may be interpreted as an admission that Myriastra was the intended name. See also De Laubenfels (1936: 168). [details]
