Caulaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paxillosida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Paxillosida

Familia: Porcellanasteridae
Genus: Caulaster
Species: C. pedunculatus – C. semimarginalis

Name

Caulaster Perrier, 1882

Type species: Caulaster pedunculatus Perrier, 1882, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Caulaster Perrier, 1882: 1379–1381; — Mironov et al., 2023: 28.
• Albatrossia Ludwig, 1905: 97.
  • Type species: Albatrossia semimarginalis Ludwig, 1905, by monotypy.
  • Synonymysed with Porcellanaster Wyville Thomson, 1878 by Madsen (1961: 123).
  • Synonymised with Caulaster by Mironov et al. (2023: 28).
• Albatrossaster Ludwig, 1907: 318.
  • Type species: Albatrossia semimarginalis Ludwig, 1905, by monotypy.
  • Note: Emendation of Albatrossia Ludwig, 1905 to avoid confusion with Albatrossa (Aves) and erroneously condidered as an unjustified emendation by H.L. Clark (1920: 81) due to one letter difference. H.L. Clark did not notice the homonymy with Albatrossia Jordan & Gilbert in Jordan & Evermann, 1898.
  • Synonymysed with Porcellanaster Wyville Thomson, 1878 by Madsen (1961: 123).
  • Synonymised with Caulaster by Mironov et al. (2023: 28).
• Damnaster H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 1994
  • Type species: Damnaster tasmani H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 1994, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Mironov et al. (2023: 28).

References

• Clark, H.E.S., McKnight, D.G. 1994. Damnaster tasmani, a new genus and species of Asteoidea (Echinodermata) from New Zealand. Invertebrate Systematics. 8(6): 1367–1372. DOI: 10.1071/IT9941367 . Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1920a. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish commission Steamer “Albatross”, from October 1904, to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding. XXXII. Asteroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 39(3): 70–154. BHL. Reference page. 
• Ludwig, H. 1905. Asterroidea. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 32: vii–xii, 1–292. BHL Reference page. 
• Ludwig, H. 1907. Diagnosen neuer Tiefsee-Seesterne aus der Familie der Porcellanasteriden. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31: 312–319. BHL Reference page. 
• Madsen, F.J. 1961. The Porcellanasteridae. A monographic revision of an abyssal group of sea-stars. Galathea Report. 4: 33–174. Reference page. 
• Mironov, A.N., Dilman, A.B., Petrov, N.B., Vladychenskaya, I.P. 2023. Taxonomic Status and Composition of the Genera Caulaster, Porcellanaster and Eremicaster (Asteroidea) Based on Juvenile Morphology and Molecular Phylogenetic Data. Diversity. 15(10): 1–50. DOI: 10.3390/d15101032 . Reference page. 
• Perrier, E. 1882. Sur une Astérie des grandes profondeurs de l'Atlantique pourvue d'un pédoncule dorsal. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 95: 1379–1381. BHL. Reference page.