WoRMS taxon details
Porania (Porania) pulvillus (O.F. Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 125166
AphiaID: 125166
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Poraniidae (Family) > Porania (Genus) > Porania (Porania) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Porania (Porania) Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias pulvillus O.F. Müller, 1776 Asteropsis pulvillus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Porania gibbosa Leach in Gray, 1840 (nomen nudum) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Porania (Porania) pulvillus insignis Verrill, 1895 Subspecies Porania (Porania) pulvillus pulvillus (O.F. Müller, 1776) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Biscay [details] British Isles [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Iceland [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Brachiolaria larva. Spring. [details] Distribution: Sublittoral to more than 200 m depth, on sand, off western, northern and northeast coasts of the British Isles, but absent from most of North Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125166 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Porania (Porania) pulvillus. 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=125166 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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