Chondraster

Chondraster grandis

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Poraniidae
Genus: Chondraster
Species: C. elattosis – C. grandis

Name

Chondraster Verrill, 1895

Type species: Porania grandis Verrill, 1878, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Porania (Chondraster) Verrill, 1895: 138.
• Chondraster Verrill, 1895; — Verrill, 1914: 21; — A.M. Clark, 1984: 27; — Mah & Foltz, 2014: 333.

References

• Clark, A.M. 1984. Notes on Atlantic and other Asteroidea. 4. Families Poraniidae and Asteropseidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 47(1): 19–51. BHL Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2014. New taxa and taxonomic revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with comments on feeding biology. Zootaxa 3795(3): 327–372. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.7 Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1895. Distribution of the echinoderms of north–eastern America. American Journal of Science. 3(49): 127-141. BHL. Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1914. Revision of some genera and species of starfishes, with descriptions of a few new genera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, ser. 8. 14 (79), 13–22. BHL Reference page. 

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