Chitonaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
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: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Goniasteridae
Genus: Chitonaster
Species: C. cataphractus – C. felli – C. johannae – C. trangae

Name

Chitonaster Sladen, 1889

Type species: Chitonaster cataphractus Sladen, 1889, by monotypy.

Note: named and briefly described in 1885 but without species named.

Synonymy

• Chitonaster Sladen, 1885: 614; 1889: 282–283; — Mah, 2011: 10–11.
• Pentoplia H.E.S. Clark, 1971: 546.
  • Type species: Pentoplia felli H.E.S. Clark, 1971, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Mah (2011: 10).

References

• Clark, H.E.S. 1971. Pentopliidae, a new family of Asteroidea from the South Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science. 21(2): 545–551. PDF. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2011. Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa. Zootaxa 2759: 1–48. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2759.1.1 Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1885. The Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Narrative 1(2): 607-617. BHL Reference page. 
• Sladen, W.P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page.