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Nymphaster dutempleanus

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Pentagonaster dutempleana was named by d'Orbigny (1850). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, MHNH 14658.

It was recombined as Nymphaster dutempleanus by Breton (1992) and Jagt et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Pentagonaster dutempleana d'Orbigny pp. 142-143
1992Nymphaster dutempleanus Breton pp. 267-269 figs. pl. 30, fig. 6
2021Nymphaster dutempleanus Jagt et al. p. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyGoniasteridae
genusNymphaster
speciesdutempleanus()

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.

Nymphaster dutempleanus d'Orbigny 1850
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Breton 1992Marginals short, wide, relatively high. External face convex and slightly domed. Granule-pits fine, dense, not swallowed, bearing spherical granules. Pedicellariae-pits, small, rounded, deep with a strong thickened margin