Asteroporpa

Asteroporpa annulata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Euryalida

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Euryophiurida Ordo: Euryalida

Familia: Gorgonocephalidae
Genus: Asteroporpa
Sungenera (2): A. (Asteroporpa) – A. (Astrohelix)
Overview of species (11): A. annulata – A. australiensis – A. bellator – A. hadracantha – A. indicus – A. koyoae – A. lindneri – A. muricatopatella – A. paucidens – A. pulchra – A. reticulata

• In synonymy (1):

A. wilsoni

Name

Asteroporpa Örsted & Lütken in Lütken, 1856

• ZooBank: 9CDCC469-FC43-4DD5-9222-ED2DBB813BD0

• Type species: Asteroporpa annulata Örsted & Lütken in Lütken, 1856, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Asteroporpa Örsted & Lütken in Lütken, 1856: 17; — Dujardin & Hupé, 1862: 298; — A.H. Clark, 1948: 60, 63–64; — McKnight, 2000: 55; — O’Hara et al., 2018: 7.
• Astroporpa [misspelling]; — Lyman, 1882: 270.

References

• Clark, A.H. 1948. Two New Starfishes and a New Brittle-star from Florida and Alabama. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61: 55–66. BHL. Reference page. 
• Dujardin, F. & Hupé, L.H. 1862. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes échinodermes : comprenant la description des crinoïdes, des ophiurides, des astérides, des échinides et des holothurides. Paris: Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret. 627 pages, 10 plates. hdl: 1908/3605 BHL Reference page. 
• Lütken, C.F. 1856. Bidrag til kundskab om Slangestjernerne. II. Oversigt over de vestindiske Ophiurer. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 1854–56: 1–19. BHL [In Danish] Reference page. 
• Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Ophiuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology 5(14): 1–386. BHL Reference page. 
• McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: basket-stars and snake-stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalinida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 115. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research: Wellington. 79 pp. ISBN 0-478-23215-2. PDF Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416: 1–35. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 Reference page. 

Links

• Asteroporpa Örsted & Lütken in Lütken, 1856 in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on May 02, 2026

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