Asterodiscides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Valvatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida

Familia: Asterodiscididae
Genus: Asterodiscides
Species (19): A. belli – A. bicornutus – A. cherbonnieri – A. conulus – A. crosnieri – A. culcitulus – A. elegans – A. fourmanoiri – A. grayi – A. helonotus – A. japonicus – A. lacrimulus – A. macroplax – A. multispinus – A. pinguiculus – A. soleae – A. tessellatus – A. truncatus – A. tuberculosus

Name

Asterodiscides A.M. Clark, 1974

ZooBank: FC2C220B-7BAC-41A7-BC78-6D23A396CAEB

Type species: Asterodiscus elegans Gray, 1847, by original designation.

Synonymy

Asterodiscus Gray, 1847: 75; — Sladen, 1889: 353; — Fisher, 1906: 1074–1075.
Asterodiscides A.M. Clark, 1974: 435; — Rowe, 1977: 192–193; — McKnight in H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 141; — Mah, 2021: 408; — Mah et al., 2026: 123.

References

Clark, A.M. 1974. Notes on some Echinoderms from southern Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology. 26(6): 423-487, 3 pls, 16 figs, 1 map, 3 tables. BHL Reference page.
Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page.
Fisher, W.K. 1906. The Starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 23(3): 987–1130. BHL Reference page.
Gray, J.E. 1847. Descriptions of some New Genera and Species of Asteriadae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 72–83. BHL Reference page.
Mah, C.L. 2021. The East Pacific/South Pacific Boundary: New taxa and occurrences from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Caledonia and adjacent regions. Zootaxa. 4980(3): 401–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.3.1 Reference page.
Mah, C.L., Gomez, O., Wilson, N.G. & Richards, Z.T., 2026. New taxa of Mesophotic Asteroidea from Ashmore Reef, Western Australia. Megataxa 19(1): 114–175. DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.19.1.2 . Reference page.
Rowe, F.W.E. 1977: A new family of Asteroidea (Echinodermata), with the description of five new species and one new subspecies of Asterodiscides. Records of the Australian Museum 31(5): 187-233. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.31.1977.209 Reference page.
Sladen, 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.

Links

Asterodiscides A. M. Clark, 1974 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on February 23, 2026