Clavaporania

Mah, Christopher L. & Foltz, David W., 2014, New taxa and taxonomic revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with Comments on Feeding Biology, Zootaxa 3795 (3), pp. 327-372 : 335

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:77AB3EAA-DA13-4C8D-885D-EB9F5F14DE34

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6133827

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F453C-955E-872B-FF0B-FF4EFD04FE75

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scientific name

Clavaporania
status

 

Clavaporania View in CoL nov. gen.

Etymology. The genus name is from the Latin “ clava ” for club or mace, which describes the club-shaped spines present on the abactinal surface and Porania after the type name of the family.

Type species: Clavaporania fitchorum nov. gen, nov. sp.

Diagnosis. Body stellate. Abactinal skeleton reticulate, embedded in a fleshy skin. Plates bearing, large, prominent spines. Some clavate, pointed or with one or two tips. Papular pores single. Abactinal, lateral and actinal surface with dense covering of skin-embedded, tiny spinelets completely covering surface. Marginal plates similar to those on abactinal surface. Actinal surface covered by fleshy skin and spinelets. Furrow spines one or two with a single subambulacral spine in a transverse row.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

SuperOrder

Valvatacea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Poraniidae

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