Pentagonaster

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Goniasteridae
Subfamilia: Pentagonasterinae
Genus: Pentagonaster
Species (5): P. duebeni – P. elegans – P. pulchellus – P. pulvinus – P. stibarus

Name

• Pentagonaster Perrier [non Schultze Gray] 1876, Arch. Zool. exp. gén. Paris, 4, 1875, 273, 291; 1876, 5, 6, 12.
• Pentagonaster Gray [non Schultze 1760] 1840 Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 6, 280 (in err. as Pentanogaster p. 176)
• Pentagonaster Schultze 1760 Verst. Seest., 50.

References

• Clark, A.M. 1953. Notes on asteroids in the British Museum (Natural History). III. Luidia. IV. Tosia and Pentagonaster. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 1(12): 379–412. BHL Reference page.  [as Pentagonaster p. 398]
• Clark, H.E.S., McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page.  [p. 92]
• Mah, C. 2007. Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae). Invertebrate systematics 21(4): 311–339. DOI: 10.1071/IS06049 Reference page.  [p. 324]