Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)

RAMS taxon details

Pentagonaster Gray, 1840

AphiaID

123302 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123302)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Pentagonasterinae Perrier, 1884

Direct children (2)

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Species Pentagonaster pulchellus Gray, 1840
Species Pentagonaster belli Studer, 1884 accepted as Odontaster penicillatus (Philippi, 1870) (Synonym according to Madsen (1956))

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

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): 280 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2024). World Asteroidea Database. Pentagonaster Gray, 1840. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2024) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123302 on 2024-04-19

Regional species database citation

De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2024). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Pentagonaster Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123302 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2007-12-17 23:27:22Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2007-12-20 06:34:18Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2008-01-19 09:31:50Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

2008-10-17 04:40:47Z

changed

Mah, Christopher

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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): 280 [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]

additional source Mah, C. (2007). Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae. Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 311-339., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/IS06049 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To ITIS