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Crateraster poritoides

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Asterias poritoides was named by Desmoulins (1832). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Not sorted, Museum of Bordeaux.

It was recombined as Crenaster poritoides by d'Orbigny (1850), Tournouër (1869), Tournouër (1875) and Noetling (1885); it was recombined as Astropecten poritoides by Dujardin and Hupé (1862), di Rovasenda (1892), Sacco (1893), del Prato (1896) and von Linstow (1909); it was recombined as Teichaster poritoides by Valette (1925), Valette (1925) and Hess (1955); it was recombined as Crateraster poritoides by Breton and Vizcaïno (1997).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1832Asterias poritoides Desmoulins pp. 196-197 figs. pl. 2 fig. 3
1850Crenaster poritoides d'Orbigny p. 400
1862Astropecten poritoides Dujardin and Hupé p. 430
1869Crenaster poritoides Tournouër p. 267
1875Crenaster poritoides Tournouër p. 485
1885Crenaster poritoides Noetling figs. pl. 6 fig. 7
1892Astropecten poritoides di Rovasenda p. 418
1893Astropecten poritoides Sacco pp. 741, 745
1896Astropecten poritoides del Prato p. 47
1909Astropecten poritoides von Linstow p. 56
1925Teichaster poritoides Valette pp. 171-172, 183-184 fig. 3
1955Teichaster poritoides Hess p. 81
1997Crateraster poritoides Breton and Vizcaïno p. 24

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyGoniasteridae
genusCrateraster
speciesporitoides()

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.

†Crateraster poritoides Desmoulins 1832
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Breton and D. Vizcaïno 1997Marginal plates of large size. Profile rectangular. External face with an adradial side flat forming a rounded angle with the abradial side. Ornament of well-imprinted dense granule pits, generally larger on adradial side. Internal face concave. Adradial face with a convace internal face and two faces of articulation with abactinal or actinolateral plates.