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Ceramaster Verrill, 1899 
AphiaID: 123291

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Goniasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Asterias granularis Retzius, 1783 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Synonymised
taxa
  Philonaster Koehler, 1909 (synonym according to Fisher (1919))
Tosiaster Verrill, 1914
Sources  original description: Verrill, A.E. (1899). Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(1): 145-234 [details]

basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (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., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details]

original description (from synonym): Koehler, R. (1909). An account of the deep-sea Asteroidea collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum Part 5: 115-131.  [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Ceramaster arcticus (Verrill, 1909)
Species Ceramaster australis H.E.S. Clark, 2001
Species Ceramaster bowersi (Fisher, 1906)
Species Ceramaster clarki Fisher, 1910
Species Ceramaster cuenoti (Koehler, 1909)
Species Ceramaster glasbyi McKnight, 1993
Species Ceramaster granularis (Retzius, 1783)
Species Ceramaster grenadensis (Perrier, 1881)
Species Ceramaster japonicus (Sladen, 1889)
Species Ceramaster lennoxkingi McKnight, 1973
Species Ceramaster leptoceramus (Fisher, 1905)
Species Ceramaster misakiensis (Goto, 1914)
Species Ceramaster mortenseni (Koehler, 1909)
Species Ceramaster patagonicus (Sladen, 1889)
Species Ceramaster smithi Fisher, 1913
Species Ceramaster stellatus Djakonov, 1950
Species Ceramaster trispinosus H.L. Clark, 1923

Species Ceramaster affinis (Perrier, 1884) accepted as Ceramaster grenadensis (Perrier, 1881)
Species Ceramaster ammophilus Halpern, 1970 accepted as Sphaeriodiscus ammophilus (Fisher, 1906)
Species Ceramaster balteatus (Sladen, 1891) accepted as Ceramaster grenadensis (Perrier, 1881)
Species Ceramaster chondriscus H.L. Clark, 1923 accepted as Ceramaster patagonicus euryplax H.L. Clark, 1923
Species Ceramaster cognatus McKnight, 2006 accepted as Ceramaster australis H.E.S. Clark, 2001
Species Ceramaster euryplax H.L. Clark, 1923 accepted as Ceramaster patagonicus euryplax H.L. Clark, 1923
Species Ceramaster fisheri Bernasconi, 1963 accepted as Ceramaster patagonicus fisheri Bernasconi, 1963
Species Ceramaster greeni Bell, 1889 accepted as Ceramaster grenadensis (Perrier, 1881)
Species Ceramaster hystricis (Marenzeller, 1893) accepted as Ceramaster grenadensis (Perrier, 1881)
Species Ceramaster hystrix Perrier, 1894 accepted as Pseudarchaster parelii (Düben & Koren, 1846)
Species Ceramaster placenta Fisher, 1911 accepted as Peltaster placenta (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Species Ceramaster scotiocryptus Halpern, 1970 accepted as Sphaeriodiscus scotocryptus Fisher, 1913
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
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Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123291
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2008-01-19 09:31:50Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Ceramaster. 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=123291 on 2013-06-19
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