Tarsaster

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: Pedicellasteridae
Genus: Tarsaster
Species: T. alaskanus – T. cocosanus – T. fascicularis – T. galapagensis – T. stoichodes

Name

Tarsaster Sladen, 1889

Type species: Tarsaster stoichodes Sladen, 1889, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Tarsaster Sladen, 1889: 439–440; — Fisher, 1923: 252.

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. 
• 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.