WoRMS taxon details
Culcita (Agassiz, 1836)
AphiaID: 204844
AphiaID: 204844
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Oreasteridae Fisher, 1911 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Goniodiscides Fisher, 1906 (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) Goniodiscus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (Formal designation of type species G. sebae falls in syn. of C. novaeguineae. This disposes of the name Goniodiscus by synonymy. However many of the species names are referable to Goniasteridae and/or Oreasteridae) Randasia Gray, 1840 Randasia luzonica Gray, 1840 (An immature Culcita according to Fisher (1919) but by inference, type was not traced.) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Jangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o - Zoologische wetenschappen Nr 208. 50 pp, 7 pl. [details] additional source: Kano, Y.T., M. Komatsu and C. Oguro. 1991. Morphological changes of the cushion star, Culcita novaeguineae Mueller and Troschel, during growth pp. 323-326 in Biology of Echinodermata, ed. by Yanagisawa, Yasumasu, Oguro, Suzuki and Motokawa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [details] additional source: Livingstone, A.A. (1932). Notes on some representatives of the asteroid genus Culcita. Australian Zoologist 7(3): 265-273. [details] additional source: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] from synonym: Clark H.L. (1909). Notes on some Australian and Indo-Pacific echinoderms. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52: 107-135. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Culcita coriacea Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita schmideliana (Retzius, 1805) Species Culcita borealis Süssbach & Breckner, 1911 accepted as Poraniomorpha (Culcitopsis) borealis (Süssbach & Breckner, 1911) Species Culcita grex Müller & Troschel, 1842 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita niassensis Sluiter, 1895 accepted as Choriaster granulatus Lütken, 1869 Species Culcita pentagularis Gray, 1847 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita pentangularis Gray, 1847 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita pulverulenta Perrier, 1869 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 Species Culcita veneris Bell, 1905 accepted as Spoladaster brachyactis (H.L.Clark, 1923) Species Culcita veneris Perrier, 1879 accepted as Spoladaster brachyactis (H.L.Clark, 1923) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Remark: Type species: Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816 (=Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805) by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family Pentagonasteridae in Ludwig (1899). [details] Synonymy: Culcita borealis is in the synonymy of Chondraster (in part) and Poraniomorpha (Culcitopsis) borealis. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204844 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Culcita (Agassiz, 1836). 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=204844 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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