Pentagonaster

Pentagonaster pulchellus

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
Subfamilia: Pentagonasterinae
Genus: Pentagonaster
Species: †P. browni – P. duebeni – †P. elegans – P. gibbosus – †P. megalomax – P. pulchellus – P. stibarus

Name

Pentagonaster Gray, 1840

Type species: Pentagonaster pulchellus Gray, 1840, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Pentagonaster Gray, 1840: 280; — Sladen, 1889: 264–267; — A.M. Clark, 1953: 398; — H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 92; — Mah, 2007: 324.
• Stephanaster Ayres, 1851
• Buterminaster Blake in Blake & Zinsmeister, 1988
  • Type species: Buterminaster elegans Blake in Blake & Zinsmeister, 1988
  • Synonymised by Mah (2007: 324).

References

• Clark, A.M. 1953. Notes on asteroids in the British Museum (Natural History). III. Luidia. IV. Tosia and Pentagonaster. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 1(12): 379–412. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus) (Continued from p. 184.) Annals and magazine of natural history 6(37): 275–290. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443296 BHL Reference page. 
• Mah, C. 2007. Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae). Invertebrate systematics 21(4): 311–339. DOI: 10.1071/IS06049 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.