Genus Nepanthia Gray, 1840

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• Nepanthia Gray, J.E. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the Class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History ns 6: 175-184, 275-290 [287].

  Type species:

   Nepanthia maculata Gray, 1840 by subsequent designation, see Verrill, A.E. 1913. Revision of the genera of starfishes of the sub-family Asterininae. American Journal of Science 4 35: 477-485 [480].
• Parasterina Fisher, W.K. 1908. Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 52: 87-93 [90].

  Type species:

   Patiria crassa Gray, 1847 by original designation (as Patiria? crassa).
• Henricides Verrill, A.E. 1914. Monograph of the shallow water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska Series 14(1): 1-408 pls 1-110 [210].

  Type species:

   Henricia heteractis H.L. Clark, 1909 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4-U107 figs 1-89 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 1. [U69] (Parasterina Fisher, 1908)
• Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (Henricides Verrill, 1914; on the basis that Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1–596 figs 1–64 pls 1–28 [169] considers Henricides heteractis (H.L. Clark, 1909) (the type species of Henricides) conspecific with Nepanthia belcheri (Perrier, 1875) which is congeneric with Nepanthia maculata Gray, 1840, the type species of Nepanthia Gray, 1840)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

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