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Porifera name details

Myriaster

AphiaID

1463622 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1463622)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (misspelling and junior synonym)

Accepted Name

Stelletta Schmidt, 1862

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870

Orig. name

Myriastra Sollas, 1886

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Species Myriaster clavosa (Ridley, 1884) accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884 (misspelling of genus name and genus transfer)
Species Myriaster quadrata Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884 (misspelling of genus name, genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Myriaster simplicifurca Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta purpurea Ridley, 1884 (misspelling of genus name, genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Myriaster subtilis Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta subtilis (Sollas, 1886) (misspelling of genus name and genus transfer)
Species Myriaster toxodonta accepted as Stelletta clavosa Ridley, 1884 (misspelling of genus name, genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

(of Myriastra Sollas, 1886) Sollas, W.J. (1886). Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series). 5: 177-199.
page(s): 187 [details]

Taxonomic citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Myriaster. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=1463622 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2020-10-26 10:01:39Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2023-12-16 18:02:03Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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Notes (1)

original description (of Myriastra Sollas, 1886) Sollas, W.J. (1886). Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series). 5: 177-199.
page(s): 187 [details]

basis of record Sollas, W.J. (1886). Preliminary account of the Tetractinellid sponges Dredged by H.M.S. ‘Challenger' 1872-76. Part I. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series). 5: 177-199.
page(s): 188 [details]

From editor or global species database

Spelling Sollas (1886, 1888) spelled the genus name Myriastra also as Myriaster without apologizing or making a correcting note. In the 1886 Preliminary paper, the first use of either name was Myriastra (on p. 186), but when describing and naming the various species in that paper he consistently used Myriaster (pp. 188-189). In the definitive monograph of 1888, he used Myriastra, citing the species erected in 1886 as members of Myriaster as synonyms of renamed Myriastra species, which may be interpreted as an admission that Myriastra was the intended name. See also De Laubenfels (1936: 168) [details]