Pedicellasteridae

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: Pedicellasteridae
Genera: †Afraster – Ampheraster – Anteliaster – Hydrasterias – Pedicellaster – Peranaster – Tarsaster

Name

Pedicellasteridae Perrier, 1884

Type genus: Pedicellaster M. Sars, 1861.

Synonymy

• Pedicellasteridae Perrier, 1884: 154, 167, 194; — Sladen, 1889: 556–557; — McKnight, 2006: 45; — Mah & Foltz, 2011: 651–652, 658, figs. 2–3.
• Pedicellasterinae Perrier, 1884; — A.M. Clark, 1962: 70.
  • As a subfamily of Asteriidae.

References

• Perrier, E. 1884. Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueillies dans la mer des Antilles et le golfe du Mexique durant les expéditions de dragage faites sous la direction de M. Alexandre Agassiz. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. ser. 2. 6: 127-276, pls I-X. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, A.M. 1962. Asteroidea. Reports. B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931. Series B (Zoology and botany). 9: 1–104. PDF Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 162(3): 646-660. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00688.x 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. 1884. Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueillies dans la mer des Antilles et le golfe du Mexique durant les expéditions de dragage faites sous la direction de M. Alexandre Agassiz. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. ser. 2. 6: 127-276, pls I-X. 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.