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Nymphaster humilis

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Chomataster humilis was named by Schulz and Weitschat (1975). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Museum of Natural History, London, holotype BNHM E 28407a,b.

It was recombined as Nymphaster humilis by Gale (1987), Gale (1989), Breton (1992), Lewis (1993) and Jagt et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Chomataster humilis Schulz and Weitschat pp. 275-276 figs. pl. 29, fig. 3-4
1985Chomataster humilis Breton p. 430
1987Nymphaster humilis Gale pp. 161-163 figs. fig. 3.1; pl. 2, fig. 3-5
1989Nymphaster humilis Gale p. 283 figs. figs. 4, 5
1992Nymphaster humilis Breton pp. 279-280 figs. fig. 7.4
1993Nymphaster humilis Lewis p. 60
2021Nymphaster humilis 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
specieshumilis()

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 humilis Schulz and Weitschat 1975
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. G. Schulz and W. Weitschat 1975Nymphaster with 8 median superomarginal plates differenciated in each interradius. Interradius weackly differentiated; with an enlarged massiv polygonal marginal plate at each angle. Median Superomarginalia relatively low, with weakly domed external surface.