Uniophora

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
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: Forcipulatida

Familia: Stichasteridae
Genus: Uniophora
Species: U. dyscrita – U. granifera – U. nuda

In synonymy: U. fungifera – U. globifera – U. gymnonota – U. multispina – U. obesa – U. sinusoida – U. uniserialis

Name

Uniophora Gray, 1840

• Type species: Uniophora globifera Gray, 1840, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Uniophora Gray, 1840: 288; — Fisher, 1923: 603; — H.L. Clark, 1928: 403, 416–417; — H.L. Clark, 1946: 158–159; — Shepherd, 1967.

References

• 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. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. No. 566: 1-567. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1923b. LXII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(71): 595-607. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632982 Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and magazine of natural history 6(36): 175–184. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443282 . BHL. Reference page. 
• Shepherd, S. 1967. A revision of the starfish genus Uniophora (Asteroidea: Asteriidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Incorporated 91: 3–14. BHL. Reference page. 

Links

• Uniophora Gray, 1840 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on August 20, 2025

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