IRMNG - Mortonia Gray, 1851

IRMNG taxon details

Mortonia Gray, 1851

IRMNG_ID

1469719 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1469719)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Echinocyamidae Lambert & Thiéry, 1914

Direct children (4)

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Species Mortonia apicatus (Mortensen, 1948)
Species Mortonia australis (Desmoulins, 1837)
Species Mortonia polyporus (Mortensen, 1921)
Species Mortonia terminalis (Grant & Hertlein, 1938) accepted as Dendraster terminalis (Grant & Hertlein, 1938)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 19, 1851
page(s): 38 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Year given as 1851 in WoRMS. Previously also treated as subgenus of Echinocyamus. Cf. Mortonia A. Gray, 1852, a separate...

Taxonomic remark Year given as 1851 in WoRMS. Previously also treated as subgenus of Echinocyamus. Cf. Mortonia A. Gray, 1852, a separate taxon (Plantae: Celastrales). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2023). Mortonia Gray, 1851. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1469719 on 2024-05-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-06-24 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 08:30:58Z

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db_admin

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original description Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 19, 1851
page(s): 38 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source Gray, 1852 [details]

habitat flag source Gray, 1852 [details]

From other sources

Taxonomic remark Year given as 1851 in WoRMS. Previously also treated as subgenus of Echinocyamus. Cf. Mortonia A. Gray, 1852, a separate taxon (Plantae: Celastrales). [details]

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