Porania

Familia: Poraniidae
Genus:
Subgenus: P. (Pseudoporania)

Porania (s. str.) species: P. hermanni – P. pulvillus

Species overview: P. hermanni – P. pulvillus – P. stormi

Porania Gray, 1840

Type species: Goniaster templetoni Thomson in Forbes, 1839

• Porania Gray, 1840: 288–289; — Sladen, 1889: 358–359; — McKnight in H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 165; — Mah & Foltz, 2014: 345–346.

• Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus) (Continued from p. 184.) Annals and magazine of natural history 6(37): 275–290. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443296 BHL Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2014. New taxa and taxonomic revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with comments on feeding biology. Zootaxa 3795(3): 327–372. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.7 Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page. 

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