Canadian Register of Marine Species - Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889

WoRMS name details

Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889

AphiaID

149878 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149878)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Ganeriinae Sladen, 1889

Rank

Family

Parent

Valvatida

Synonymised names

Cryasteridae Koehler, 1896 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 30 (part 51): xlii + 893 pages, 118 plates., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-51/README.htm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149878 on 2025-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-03-31 08:47:45Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2008-01-19 12:10:32Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2020-03-12 16:20:45Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

Licensing

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Sources (5)
Links (3)

Nomenclature

original description Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 30 (part 51): xlii + 893 pages, 118 plates., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-51/README.htm [details]

basis of record Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.). , available online at https://www.gu.se/sites/default/files/2020-10/NEAT%2AEchinodermata.pdf [details]

Other

additional source Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mah, C. L.; Fujita, T. (2020). New species and occurrence records of Japanese Solasteridae and Ganeriidae including a new species of Paralophaster from the North Pacific with an overview of Hyalinothrix. Zootaxa. 4750(1): 67-100., available online at https://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4750.1.4 [details]

additional source Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ganeriidae)
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