Meridiastra gunnii

Meridiastra gunnii

Meridiastra gunnii

Meridiastra gunnii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leptognathina
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: Spinulosida Subordo: Leptognathina

Familia: Asterinidae
Genus: Meridiastra
Species: Meridiastra gunnii

Name

• Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840)
  • original combination: Asterina gunnii Gray, 1840

Synonymy

• Asterias calcar var. hexagona Lamarck, 1816
• Asterina gunnii Gray, 1840, 1840; — Sladen, 1889: 392.
• Asterina gunni Gray, 1840, 1840
• Asteriscus australis Müller & Troschel, 1842
• Asteriscus diesingi Müller & Troschel, 1842
• Asteriscus exiguus Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869
• Patiriella brevispina H.L. Clark, 1938
  • Type locality: Australia, Western Australia, Bunbury, Koombana Bay. 33.313330°S 115.647780°E / -33.313330; 115.647780. Depth 5-8 fms.
  • Holotype: MCZ AST-3305 [1]
  • Paratypes: MCZ AST-3306 [2]; MCZ AST-3309 [3]
• Patiriella gunnii (Gray, 1840, 1840)
• Patiriella gunni (Gray, 1840, 1840)

References

• Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 55: 1–597, 28 pls. BHL Reference page.  [as Patiriella brevispina p. 166–167 (original description)]
• 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.  [as Asterina gunnii p. 289–290 (original description)]
• 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.