Pteraster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Velatida
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: Velatida

Familia: Pterasteridae
Genus: Pteraster
Species (47): P. abyssorum – P. acicula – P. affinis – P. alveolatus – P. bathami – P. capensis – P. caribbaeus – P. corynetes – P. coscinopeplus – P. diaphanus – P. educator – P. flabellifer – P. florifer – P. fornicatus – P. gibber – P. hastatus – P. hirsutus – P. hymenasteroides – P. hystrix – P. ifurus – P. jordani – P. koehleri – P. marsippus – P. militarioides – P. militaris – P. minutus – P. multiporus – P. myonotus – P. obesus – P. obscurus – P. octaster – P. personatus – P. pulvillus – P. reticulatus – P. robertsoni – P. rugatus – P. rugosus – P. solitarius – P. spinosissimus – P. stellifer – P. temnochiton – P. tesselatus – P. tetracanthus – P. texius – P. trigonodon – P. uragensis – P. willsi

Name

Pteraster Müller & Troschel, 1842: 127

Type species: Asterias militaris Müller, 1776, by monotypy.

Synonymy

(List may be incomplete)

Pteraster Müller & Troschel, 1842: 127; — Sladen, 1889: 470–471; — Fisher, 1911: 344–345, 368–370; 1940: 191–192; — McKnight, 2006: 16; — Clark & Jewett, 2011: 9, 11–12.
Retaster Perrier, 1878; — Sladen, 1889: 477–478.
Marsipaster Sladen, 1882: 202–203; 1889: 483–485; — Shin & Kim, 2016: 348.
Pterasterides Verrill, 1909: 547.
- Type species: Pteraster aporus Ludwig, 1886, by original designation.
- Synonymised by Fisher (1911: 344).

References

Clark, R.N. & Jewett, S.C. 2011. Three new sea stars (Asteroidea: Solasteridae & Pterasteridae) from the Aleutian Islands. Zootaxa. 3051(1): 1–13. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3051.1.1 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.
Fisher, W.K. 1940. Asteroidea. Discovery Reports. 20: 69–306. BHL Reference page.
McKnight, D.G. 2006. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Asteroidea (sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 120: 1–187. PDF Reference page.
Müller, J.P. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. xxx+134 pp. 12 pls. BHL Reference page.
Shin, S. & Kim, D. 2016. A new record of sea star genus Pteraster (Asteroidea: Velatida: Pterasteridae) from the East Sea, Korea. Journal of Species Research. 5(3): 348–350. DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.348 Reference page.
Sladen, P. 1882. The Asteroidea of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition, pt. 1. Pterasteridae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 16: 189–246. 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.
Verrill, A.E. 1909. Remarkable development of starfished on the Northwest American coast; Hybridism; Multiplicity of rays; Teratology; Problems in evolution; Geographical distribution. The American naturalist. 43(513): 542-555. BHL Reference page.