Cosmasterias

Cosmasterias lurida

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: Stichasteridae
Genus: Cosmasterias
Species: C. dyscrita – C. felipes – C. lurida

Name

Cosmasterias Sladen, 1889

• Type species: Asteracanthion sulcifer Valenciennes in Perrier, 1869

Synonymy

• Asterias (Cosmasterias) Sladen, 1889: 576; — Perrier, 1891: 159.
• Quadraster Perrier, 1896: 27.
  • Type species: Stichaster felipes Sladen, 1889.
  • Synonymised by Fisher (1923: 596).
• Cosmasterias Sladen, 1889; — Fisher, 1923: 596; 1930: 227; 1940: 262–263; — Fell, 1960: 66; — McKnight, 2006: 59.

References

• Fell, H.B. 1960. Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 2. Archibenthal and littoral echinoderms. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 5: 1–31. PDF Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1923b. LXII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(71): 595-607. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632982 Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1930. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 3: Forcipulata (Concluded). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76(3): 1-356. DOI: 10.5479/si.03629236.76.3 BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1940. Asteroidea. Discovery Reports. 20: 69–306. 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. 
• Perrier, E. 1891. Échinodermes, I. - Stellérides. Mission scientifique du cap Horn, 1882-1883. 6(3): 1–198. BHL 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.