Paranepanthia grandis

Paranepanthia grandis

Paranepanthia grandis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leptognathina
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: Spinulosida Subordo: Leptognathina

Familia: Asterinidae
Genus: Paranepanthia
Species: Paranepanthia grandis

Name

Paranepanthia grandis (H.L. Clark, 1928)

• Original combination: Nepanthia grandis H.L. Clark, 1928

• ZooBank: D6C6D92B-C278-4228-A6C9-F6C88977FD03

• Type locality: South Australia, Spencer or St. Vincent Gulf.

• Holotype: SAMA K152 [1] [formely E430].

• Paratypes: SAMA K151 [2]; SAMA K153 [3]; SAMA K557 [4].

Synonymy

• Nepanthia grandis H.L. Clark, 1928: 393–395, fig. 113.
• Asterinopsis grandis (H.L. Clark, 1928) Livingstone, 1933: 15–16, pl. 3(3–4), pl. 4(5, 8); — Cotton & Godfrey, 1942: 203.
• Paranepanthia grandis (H.L. Clark, 1928) H.L. Clark, 1938: 159–161; — H.L. Clark, 1946: 141; — A.M. Clark, 1966: 141.

References

• Clark, A.M. 1966. Port Phillip Bay Survey 1957–1963. Echinodermata. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 27: 289–355. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1966.27.16 PDF BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1928. The sea-lilies, sea-stars, brittle-stars and sea-urchins of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum 3(4): 361–482. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. No. 566: 1-567. BHL Reference page. 
• Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1942. Echinodermata of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 7: 193–234. BHL. Reference page. 
• Livingstone, A.A. 1933. Some genera and species of the Asterinidae. Records of the Australian Museum 19(1): 1–20, pls 1–5. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1933.686. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• Paranepanthia grandis (H.L. Clark, 1928) in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on August 16, 2025

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