Caymanostella
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Velatida |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Caymanostellidae
Genus: Caymanostella
Species (10):
C. admiranda –
C. davidalani –
C. hades –
C. laguardai –
C. loresae –
C. madagascariensis –
C. persephone –
C. phorcynis –
C. scrippscognaticausa –
C. spinimarginata
- Transferred to other genera (1): C. hispida
Name
[edit]Caymanostella Belyaev, 1974
- Type species: Caymanostella spinimarginata Belyaev, 1974, by original designation.
Synonymy
[edit]- Caymanostella Belyaev, 1974: 1502; — Rowe, 1989: 297–298; — McKnight, 2006: 25; — Shen et al., 2024; 362.
- Crinitostella Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021: 592–593.
- Type species: Crinitostella laguardai Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021, by original designation.
- Synonymised by Shen et al. (2024: 383–384).
References
[edit]- Belyaev, G.M. 1974. A new family of Abyssal starfishes. Zoologischeskii Zhurnal. 53(10): 1502–1508. Reference page.
- Martín-Cao-Romero, C., Solís-Marín, F.A., Bribiesca-Contreras, G. 2021. Crinitostella laguardai, new genus and species of wood-dwelling deep-sea sea-star (Asteroidea: Caymanostellidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 101(3): 591–597. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315421000448
. 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.
- Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. A review of the family Caymanostellidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) with the description of a new species of Caymanostella Belyaev and a new genus. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 111(4): 293–307. BHL Reference page.
- Shen, Z., Mongiardino Koch, N., Seid, C., Tilic, E., Rouse, G.W. 2024. Three New Species of Deep-Sea Wood-Associated Sea Stars (Asteroidea: Caymanostellidae) from the Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa 5536(3): 351–388. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.1
. Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Caymanostella Belyaev, 1974 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on August 22, 2025