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Crateraster quinqueloba

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Asterias quinqueloba was named by Goldfuss (1833). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Natural History Museum, London, neotype BNHM E 5065. It is the type species of Crateraster. It was considered paraphyletic by Breton (1992).

It was recombined as Pentetagonaster quinqueloba by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Pentagonaster quinquelobus by Cornet (1900); it was recombined as Pentagonaster quinqueloba by Spencer (1907); it was recombined as Crateraster quinqueloba by Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Mercier (1935), Mercier (1936), Wright and Wright (1940), Brünnich-Nielsen (1943), Spencer and Wright (1966), Breton (1978), Schulz and Weitschat (1981), Breton (1985), Breton (1986), Gale (1987), Wright and Smith (1987), Smith et al. (1988), Breton (1992), Lewis (1993), Néraudeau and Breton (1993), Helm (1997), Villier (2001), Villier and Odin (2001) and Reich and Frenzel (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Asterias quinqueloba Goldfuss p. 209 figs. pl. 63 fig. 5a-u
1850Pentetagonaster quinqueloba d'Orbigny p. 274
1887Asterias quinqueloba Novak p. 6
1891Pentagonaster megalomax Sladen p. 27 figs. pl. 4 fig. 2-4
1893Pentagonaster megalomax Sladen pp. 29-30 figs. pl. 13 fig. 1
1900Pentagonaster quinquelobus Cornet p. 253
1907Pentagonaster quinqueloba Spencer pp. 107, 114, 116 figs. 6, 14
1913Crateraster quinqueloba Spencer p. 121 figs. pl. 12 fig. 1-4, 6-10, 12-13
1915Crateraster quinqueloba Valette pp. 26-28 fig. 7
1935Crateraster quinqueloba Mercier p. 23 figs. pl. 1 fig. 11a-b
1936Crateraster quinqueloba Mercier p. 23
1940Crateraster quinqueloba Wright and Wright p. 239 figs. pl. 13 fig. 10, pl. 16 fig. 1-2
1943Crateraster quinqueloba Brünnich-Nielsen p. 11 fig. 6
1966Crateraster quinqueloba Spencer and Wright pp. 61-62 fig. 56.6
1969Pentagonaster megalomax Ginda p. 53 fig. 8
1978Crateraster quinqueloba Breton p. 43 figs. pl. 6 fig. 31-32
1981Crateraster quinqueloba Schulz and Weitschat pp. 29-31 figs. pl. 2 fig. 1, 3, pl. 3 fig. 1-3, pl. 5 f
1985Crateraster quinqueloba Breton p. 430
1986Crateraster quinqueloba Breton p. 30 fig. 1
1987Crateraster quinqueloba Gale pp. 177-181 figs. 5, pl. 5 fig. 17, pl. 6 fig. 1-11, pl. 7
1987Crateraster quinqueloba Wright and Smith p. 316 figs. pl. 47 fig. 4
1988Crateraster quinqueloba Smith et al. p. 203
1992Crateraster quinqueloba Breton pp. 333-341 figs. 6.1, 7.2, 16, 18, 26, 134, 139, pl. 41-4
1993Crateraster quinqueloba Lewis pp. 52-53
1993Crateraster quinqueloba Néraudeau and Breton p. 115 figs. pl. 1 fig. 6-7
1997Crateraster quinqueloba Helm pp. 111-112 fig. 18
2001Crateraster quinqueloba Villier pp. 601-603 figs. 9.1-8
2001Crateraster quinqueloba Villier and Odin figs. pl. 2 fig. 4-6
2002Crateraster quinqueloba Reich and Frenzel p. 182

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

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 quinqueloba Goldfuss 1833
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Invalid names: Pentagonaster megalomax Sladen 1891 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Breton 1992Middle size form. Arms short, pointed, slightly upward. Interbrachial arc regularly concave. Up to ten pairs of marginals per half arc. Size of marginals decreases regularly to the arm tip. Profile of marginals angular. Ornament of large crater-shaped granule-pits surrounded by a margin, eventually associated with simple granule-pits.