Solaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
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: Valvatida

Familia: Solasteridae
Genus: Solaster
Species (23): S. abyssicola – S. benedicti – S. caribbaeus – S. dawsoni – S. earlli – S. endeca – S. exiguus – S. glacialis – S. haliplous – S. hexactis – S. hypothrissus – S. intermedius – S. longoi – S. namakae – S. notophrynus – S. pacificus – S. paxillatus – S. regularis – S. spectabilis – S. stimpsoni – S. syrtensis – S. torulatus – S. tropicus – S. uchidai

Name

Solaster Forbes, 1839

Type species: Asterias endeca Linnaeus, 1771, by subsequent designation.

Synonymy

Solaster Forbes, 1839: 120; — Sladen, 1889: 450–452; — Fisher, 1911: 306–307; — McKnight, 2006: 11; — Clark & Jewett, 2011: 2, 8–9; — Ubagan & Shin, 2019: 504; — Mah, 2022: 64; 2023: 71; 2024: 498.
Endeca Gray, 1840
Solaster (Endeca) Gray, 1840

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.
Forbes, E. 1839. On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 8: 114-129. BHL Reference page.
Mah, C.L 2022. New Genera, Species and Occurrences of Deep-Sea Asteroidea (Valvatacea, Forcipulatacea, Echinodermata) collected from the North Pacific Ocean by the CAPSTONE Expedition. Zootaxa. 5164(1): 1–75. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5164.1.1 Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2023. New Genera, Species, and observations on the biology of Antarctic Valvatida (Asteroidea). Zootaxa. 5310(1): 1–88. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5310.1.1 . Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2024. Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic. Zootaxa. 5432(4): 461–508. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5432.4.2 . 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.
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.
Ubagan, M.D. & Shin, S. 2019. New record of a sea star of genus Solaster (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Solasteridae) from the East Sea, Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology. 37(4): 503–507. DOI: 10.11626/KJEB.2019.37.4.503 . Reference page.