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Teichaster favosus retiformis

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy

Teichaster favosus retiformis was named by Spencer (1913). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Teichaster retiformis by Brünnich-Nielsen (1943), Rasmussen (1950), Rasmussen (1972), Rasmussen (1979).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1913	Teichaster favosus retiformis Spencer p. 122 figs. pl. 12, fig. 17, 19
1943	Teichaster retiformis Brünnich-Nielsen pp. 55-56 figs. fig. 10; pl. 3, fig. 18-19
1950	Teichaster retiformis Rasmussen pp. 71-72 figs. fig. 6; pl. 10, fig. 5
1972	Teichaster retiformis Rasmussen p. 50 figs. pl. 2, fig. 1-2
1979	Teichaster retiformis Rasmussen p. 70

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Asterozoa	()
class	Asteroidea

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Ambuloasteroidea
infraclass	Neoasteroidea	()
superorder	Valvatacea
order	Valvatida
family	Goniasteridae
genus	Teichaster
species	favosus	()
subspecies	retiformis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Teichaster favosus retiformis Spencer 1913

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
H. W. Rasmussen 1950	A Teichaster whose superomarginals are tall, slightly tumid and can be slightly wedge-shaped (longer above than below). The free abactinal lateral surface slopes envely. The median inferomarginals in the adult are very large, broad, and with a very compact appearance. The ornamentation is composed of large, uniform, closely placed spine-pits, which cover the whole surface.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calcitef

Ontogeny:

accretion, addition of partsp

Environment:

marinef

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

detritivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Dispersal:

waterf

Dispersal 2:

planktonicf

Created:

2007-10-02 04:01:50

Modified:

2007-10-02 06:05:14

Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992

Collections

No collection or age range data are available