Glabraster

Glabraster antarctica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
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: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida

Familia: Poraniidae
Genus: Glabraster
Species (1): G. antarctica

• In synonymy (1): G. magellanica
  

Name

Glabraster A.H. Clark, 1916

• ZooBank: 833B932D-293F-4BF7-A090-19FA2CE95482

• Type species: Porania magellanica Studer, 1876, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Glabraster A.H. Clark, 1916: 121–122; — Mah & Foltz, 2014: 338–339.

References

• Clark, A.H. 1916. Seven new genera of echinoderms. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 6(5): 115–122. 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. 

Links

• Glabraster A.H. Clark, 1916 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on February 05, 2026

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