Sclerasterias

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
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: Forcipulatida

Familia: Asteriidae
Genus: Sclerasterias
Species: S. alexandri – S. contorta – S. dubia – S. eructans – S. euplecta – S. eustyla – S. guernei – S. heteropaes – S. mazophora – S. mollis – S. neglecta – S. parvulus – S. richardi – S. satsumana – S. tanneri

Name

Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891

Type species: Sclerasterias guernei Perrier, 1891, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891: 264; — Fisher, 1923: 255; 1925: 171–175; 1928: 105–112; — McKnight, 2006: 64; — Mah & Foltz, 2011: 655.
• Australiaster Fisher, 1923: 258.
  • Type species: Coscinasterias dubia H.L. Clark, 1909, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Mah & Foltz (2011: 655).
• Eustolasterias Fisher, 1923: 255.
  • Type species: Coscinasterias euplecta Fisher, 1906, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Fisher (1928: 105).
• Triplasterias Engel, Croes & Schroevers, 1960
• Rumbleaster McKnight, 2006: 62.
  • Type species: Rumbleaster eructans McKnight, 2006, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Mah & Foltz (2011: 655).

References

• Fisher, W.K. 1923a. XXVIII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(68): 247-258. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632942 Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1925. Asexual Reproduction in the Starfish, Sclerasterias. Biological Bulletin. 48(3): 171–175. DOI: 10.2307/1536659
• Fisher, W.K. 1928. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters. Part 2. Forcipulata (part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 76: 1–245. BHL. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 162(3): 646-660. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00688.x 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. 
• Perrier, E. 1891. Stellerides nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 4: 258–271. BHL Reference page.