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Anthenea Gray, 1840

205896  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205896)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Valvatida (Order)
  10. Oreasteridae (Family)
  11. Anthenea (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Hosea Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (lapsus for Hosia Gray, 1840 )
Hosia Gray, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym according to Perrier (1875))

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  1. Species Anthenea acanthodes H.L. Clark, 1938
  2. Species Anthenea aspera Döderlein, 1915
  3. Species Anthenea australiae Döderlein, 1915
  4. Species Anthenea chinensis Gray, 1840
  5. Species Anthenea conjugens Döderlein, 1935
  6. Species Anthenea crassa H.L. Clark, 1938
  7. Species Anthenea crudelis Döderlein, 1915
  8. Species Anthenea diazi Domantay, 1969
  9. Species Anthenea edmondi A.M. Clark, 1970
  10. Species Anthenea elegans H.L. Clark, 1938
  11. Species Anthenea flavescens (Gray, 1840)
  12. Species Anthenea godeffroyi Döderlein, 1915
  13. Species Anthenea mertoni Koehler, 1910
  14. Species Anthenea mexicana A.H. Clark, 1916
  15. Species Anthenea obesa H.L. Clark, 1938
  16. Species Anthenea pentagonula (Lamarck, 1816)
  17. Species Anthenea polygnatha H.L. Clark, 1938
  18. Species Anthenea regalis Koehler, 1910
  19. Species Anthenea rudis Koehler, 1910
  20. Species Anthenea sibogae Döderlein, 1915
  21. Species Anthenea sidneyensis Doderlein, 1915
  22. Species Anthenea tuberculosa Gray, 1847
  23. Species Anthenea viguieri Döderlein, 1915
  24. Species Anthenea acuta (Perrier, 1869) accepted as Goniodiscus acutus Heller, 1863 accepted as Peltaster placenta (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (Homonym of H. acutus according to A.M. Clark (1993))
  25. Species Anthenea difficilis Liao in Liao & Clark, 1995 accepted as Gymnanthenea difficilis (Liao in Liao & Clark, 1995) (transferred to Gymnanthenea by Fujita & Rowe (2002))
  26. Species Anthenea globigera Döderlein, 1915 accepted as Gymnanthenea globigera (Döderlein, 1915)
  27. Species Anthenea granulifera Gray, 1847 accepted as Goniodiscaster granuliferus (Gray, 1847)
  28. Species Anthenea grayi Perrier, 1875 accepted as Pseudanthenea grayi (Perrier, 1875)
  29. Species Anthenea nuda Döderlein, 1915 accepted as Anthenea flavescens (Gray, 1840) (A variety of A. flavescnes)
  30. Species Anthenea obtusangula (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Pseudoreaster obtusangulus (Lamarck, 1816)
  31. Species Anthenea spinulosa (Gray, 1847) accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 (A synonym according to Goto (1914))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 279 [details] 
Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Anthenea Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205896 on 2025-04-07
Date
action
by
1999-09-02 20:23:25Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2006-09-05 08:30:55Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
2007-12-22 17:11:25Z
changed
Mah, Christopher

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Nomenclature

original description Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 279 [details] 

original description (of Hosia Gray, 1840) Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up
page(s): 279 [details] 

original description (of Hosea Gray, 1866) Gray, J.E. (1866). Synopsis of the Species of Starfish in the British Museum (with figures of some of the new species). 18 pp., 16 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11715486
page(s): 9 [details] 

basis of record 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] 

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

additional source Doderlein, L. (1915). Die Arten der Asteroiden-Gattung Anthenea Gray. Jahrbuchern des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde in Wiesbaden. 68: 21-55., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7261060 [details] 

 
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Remark Type species: Anthenea chinensis Gray 1840, (= Asterias pentagonula Lamarck 1816) by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Goniasteridae in Clark & Rowe (1971). [details]
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anthenea) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hosea) (from synonym Hosea Gray, 1866)
To Genbank 
To Genbank (from synonym Hosea Gray, 1866)
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