WoRMS taxon details
Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891
AphiaID: 123225
AphiaID: 123225
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Forcipulatacea (Superorder) > Forcipulatida (Order) > Asteriidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Asteriidae Gray, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Australiaster Fisher, 1923 Eustolasterias Fisher, 1923 (synonym) Hydrasterias Perrier, 1893 (synonym) Pedicellaster parvulus Perrier, 1891 Rumbleaster McKnight, 2006 (synonym) Triplasterias Engel & Schroevers, 1960 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] additional source: Fisher, W.K. (1924). The genus Sclerasterias Perrier. Bulletin de Institut Oceanographique, Monaco 414(3): 1-8 [details] from synonym: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: McKnight D.G. (2006). The marine fauna of New Zealand, Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 120: 1-187. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Sclerasterias alexandri (Ludwig, 1905) Species Sclerasterias contorta (Perrier, 1881) Species Sclerasterias euplecta (Fisher, 1906) Species Sclerasterias eustyla (Sladen, 1889) Species Sclerasterias guernei Perrier, 1891 Species Sclerasterias heteropaes Fisher, 1924 Species Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Species Sclerasterias mollis (Hutton, 1872) Species Sclerasterias neglecta (Perrier, 1891) Species Sclerasterias parvulus (Perrier, 1891) Species Sclerasterias richardi (Perrier, 1882) Species Sclerasterias satsumana Doderlein, 1902 Species Sclerasterias tanneri (Verrill, 1880) Species Sclerasterias peregrina Bell (nomen nudum) Species Sclerasterias candicans (Ludwig, 1903) accepted as Notasterias candicans (Ludwig, 1903) Species Sclerasterias crassa H.L. Clark, 1940 accepted as Sclerasterias alexandri (Ludwig, 1905) Species Sclerasterias hypacantha Fisher, 1928 accepted as Sclerasterias euplecta (Fisher, 1906) Species Sclerasterias nitida Koehler, 1910 accepted as Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Species Sclerasterias stenactis (H.L. Clark, 1926) accepted as Sclerasterias mazophora (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Species Sclerasterias subangulosa Fisher, 1928 accepted as Sclerasterias contorta (Perrier, 1881) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123225 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123225 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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