Pseudarchaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paxillosida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Paxillosida

Familia: Pseudarchasteridae
Genus: Pseudarchaster
Species: P. alascensis – P. discus – P. dissonus – P. diversigranulatus – P. garricki – P. gracilis – P. hispidus – P. jordani – P. macdougalli – P. microceramus – †P. motutaraensis – P. mozaicus – P. myobrachius – P. oligoporus – P. ornatus – P. parelii – P. pectinifer – †P. portlandicus – P. pulcher – P. pusillus – P. roseus – P. tessellatus – P. verrilli

Name

Pseudarchaster Sladen, 1889

Type species: Pseudarchaster discus Sladen, 1889 by subsequent designation by Verrill (1899: 189)

Note: named and briefly described in 1885 but without species named.

Synonymy

Pseudarchaster Sladen, 1885: 617; 1889: 109–110; — Verrill, 1899: 189–190; — Fisher, 1905: 303; 1911: 179–180; — Mortensen, 1927: 86; — Halpern, 1972: 360; — Downey, 1973: 59; — H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 114.
Aphroditaster Sladen, 1885: 612; 1889: 116–117.
- Type species: Aphroditaster gracilis Sladen, 1889 by monotypy.
- Note: named and briefly described in 1885 but without species named.
- Synonymised by Mortensen (1927: 86).
Fisheraster Halpern, 1970: 2.
- Type species: Aphroditaster microceramus Fisher, 1913, by original designation.
- Synonymised by Aziz & Jangoux (1984).

References

Aziz, A., Jangoux, M. 1984. Description de quatre nouvelles espèces d’astérides profonds (Echinodermata) de la région Indo-Malaise. Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 187–194. Reference page.
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.
Downey, M.E. 1973. Starfishes from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Smithsonian contributions to Zoology 126: 1–158. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.126 Reference page.
Fisher, W.K. 1905. New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 24: 293–320. BHL Reference page.
Fisher, W.K. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 76(1): xiii+420 pp.; 122 pls. BHL Reference page.
Halpern, J.A. 1970. Biological Investigations of the deep sea. 53. New species and genera of goniasterid sea stars. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 83: 1–12. BHL Reference page.
Halpern, J.A. 1972. Pseudarchasterinae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) of the Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 85: 359–383. BHL Reference page.
Mortensen, O.T.J. 1927. Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press: London. IX, 471 pp. BHL Reference page.
Verrill, A.E. 1899. Revision of certain Genera and Species of Starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10(1): 145-234. BHL. Reference page.
Sladen, P. 1885. The Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Narrative 1(2): 607-617. BHL Reference page.
Sladen, W.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.