Coscinasterias

Coscinasterias muricata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Forcipulatida

Familia: Asteriidae
Genus: Coscinasterias
Species: C. acutispina – C. calamaria – C. muricata – C. tenuispina

Name

Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867

Type species: Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867: 248; — Fisher, 1906: 1104–1105; — Ely, 1942: 29; — McKnight, 2006: 58.
• Stolasterias Sladen, 1889
• Lytaster Perrier, 1894

References

• Ely, C.A. 1942. Shallow water Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea of Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 176: 1–63. Hathitrust. 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. 
• 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. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1867. Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 1. Descriptions of new starfishes from New Zealand. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1(2): 247–251. BHL Reference page.