The World Asteroidea Database

Asteroidea name details

Hosia Gray, 1840

AphiaID

370892 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370892)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym according to Perrier (1875))

Accepted Name

Anthenea Gray, 1840

Rank

Genus

Parent

Oreasteridae Fisher, 1908

Synonymised names

Hosea Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (lapsus for Hosia Gray, 1840 )

Direct children (2)

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Species Hosia flavescens Gray, 1840 accepted as Anthenea flavescens (Gray, 1840) (synonym according to Perrier (1875))
Species Hosia spinulosa Gray, 1847 accepted as Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842 (A synonym according to Koehler (1910))

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

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]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2021). World Asteroidea Database. Hosia Gray, 1840. Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/Asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370892 on 2024-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-12-07 02:46:14Z

created

Mah, Christopher

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Links (2)

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]

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Hosea Gray, 1866)
To Genbank (from synonym Hosea Gray, 1866)