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Metopaster hunteri
Taxonomy
Goniaster (Goniodiscus) hunteri was named by Forbes (1848). It is not extant.
It was recombined as Astrogonium hunteri by Dujardin and Hupé (1862); it was recombined as Goniodiscus hunteri by Carpenter (1882); it was recombined as Mitraster hunteri by Sladen (1893), Valette (1902), Spencer (1907), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915) and Mercier (1936); it was misspelled as Mitraster hunterii by Brünnich-Nielsen (1943); it was recombined as Metopaster hunteri by Rasmussen (1950), Breton (1978), Gale (1987), Breton (1992) and Breton (1997).
It was recombined as Astrogonium hunteri by Dujardin and Hupé (1862); it was recombined as Goniodiscus hunteri by Carpenter (1882); it was recombined as Mitraster hunteri by Sladen (1893), Valette (1902), Spencer (1907), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915) and Mercier (1936); it was misspelled as Mitraster hunterii by Brünnich-Nielsen (1943); it was recombined as Metopaster hunteri by Rasmussen (1950), Breton (1978), Gale (1987), Breton (1992) and Breton (1997).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1848 | Goniaster (Goniodiscus) hunteri Forbes p. 471 |
1848 | Goniaster (Goniodiscus) sublunatus Forbes p. 472 |
1850 | Goniaster (Goniodiscus) hunteri Forbes pp. 331-332 figs. pl. 21 fig. 1 |
1850 | Goniaster (Goniodiscus) sublunatus Forbes p. 331 |
1854 | Goniaster (Goniodiscus) sublunatus Morris p. 81 |
1862 | Astrogonium hunteri Dujardin and Hupé p. 399 |
1862 | Astrogonium sublunatum Dujardin and Hupé p. 399 |
1876 | Asterias sublunatus Quenstedt pp. 57-58 figs. pl. 92 fig. 2-3 |
1882 | Goniodiscus hunteri Carpenter p. 530 |
1882 | Goniodiscus sublunatus Carpenter p. 530 |
1893 | Metopaster sublunatus Sladen pp. 51-53 |
1893 | Mitraster hunteri Sladen pp. 59-62 figs. pl. 9 fig. 3, pl. 12 fig. 3, pl. 15 fig. |
1902 | Mitraster hunteri Valette p. 14 figs. fig. 1 |
1907 | Mitraster hunteri Spencer p. 117 figs. fig. 18 |
1913 | Mitraster hunteri Spencer p. 117 figs. pl. 10 fig. 23 only |
1915 | Mitraster hunteri Valette pp. 17-18 figs. fig. 3 |
1936 | Mitraster hunteri Mercier p. 23 |
1943 | Mitraster hunterii Brünnich-Nielsen p. 38 |
1950 | Metopaster hunteri Rasmussen p. 21 |
1978 | Metopaster hunteri Breton pp. 25-27 figs. fig. 14, pl. 3 fig. 12-14 |
1987 | Metopaster hunteri Gale pp. 29-31 figs. pl. 6 fig. 18-23, pl. 8 fig. 1-9 |
1992 | Metopaster hunteri Breton pp. 138-145 figs. fig. 56-60, pl. 8 fig. 8-11, pl. 9-10 |
1997 | Metopaster hunteri Breton pp. 142-143 figs. fig. 6 |
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†Metopaster hunteri Forbes 1848
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Invalid names: Goniaster (Goniodiscus) sublunatus Forbes 1848 [synonym]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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G. Breton 1992 | Size small to medium. Body circular to pentagonal with blunt angles and convex sides. R/r ratio about 1.1. Four intermediate superomarginal plates per side at adult size. Marginal plates generally wider than long. One enlarged ultimate superomarginal plate triangular, short, in contact with three inferomarginals. Superomarginal plates with an abactinal bulge. The abactinal side typically bears adradial rugosities that disappear gradually to the abactinal bulge. Granule-pits occur between rugosities but do not expand to the entire surface of the external face. Inferomarginals with an external face with scattered granule-pits on actinal and adradial sides. |