Crinitostella

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Velatida

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota 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: Velatida

Familia: Caymanostellidae
Genus: Crinitostella
Species:

• Transferred to other genera (1): C. laguardai
  

Name

Crinitostella Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021

• ZooBank: 2A2AB767-2DFA-4D16-A93D-376B1C1E6B86

• Type species: Crinitostella laguardai Martín-Cao-Romero, Solís-Marín & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021, by original designation.

• Status:   junior subjective synonym   of Caymanostella Belyaev, 1974

• Synonymised by Shen et al. (2024: 383–384).

References

• 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.  [p. 592–593]
• 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

• Crinitostella Martin-Cao-Romero, Solis-Marin & Bribiesca-Contreras, 2021 in the World Asteroidea Database, accessed on August 23, 2025