Monachaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota 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: Oreasteridae
Genus: Monachaster
Species: M. sanderi

• In synonymy: M. umbonatus
  

Name

Monachaster Döderlein, 1916

• ZooBank: 6899977F-2842-4052-9C17-EC2CA45ED4EB

• Type species: Goniodiscus sanderi Meissner, 1892, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Monachaster Döderlein, 1916: 412; — Mah, 2018: 65.

References

• Döderlein, L. 1916. Über die Gattung Oreaster und Verwandte. Zoologische Jahrbücher 40: 409–440. BHL. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2018. New genera, species and occurrence records of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4539(1): 1–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4539.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Monachaster Döderlein, 1916 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on December 12, 2025