Bathyporania, Mah, Christopher L. & Foltz, David W., 2014

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 : 331

Bathyporania n. gen.

Etymology. The genus is named for the deep depth at which the specimen was collected.

Type species. Bathyporania ascendens n. gen, n. sp.

Diagnosis. Stellate body form. Body surface covered by discrete layer of tissue obscuring plate boundaries in wet specimens. Abactinal-lateral surfaces covered with short, prominent blunt spines, one to four, present on polylobate plates forming a dense reticulum. Papulae, one to three, present between plates but absent below marginals each as large as the adjoining abactinal spine. Marginals polylobate in outline, overlapping. Inferomarginals smaller than superomarginals. Spinelets, zero (mostly three) to five present on marginal plate surface. Actinolateral edge weakly developed. Actinal surface with single sines on each plate. Surface covered by skin, obscuring plates. Furrow spines three or four.