Plutonaster

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paxillosida
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: Paxillosida

Familia: Astropectinidae
Genus: Plutonaster
Species: P. agassizi – P. ambiguus – P. bifrons – P. complexus – P. efflorescens – P. fragilis – P. hikurangi – P. intermedius – P. jonathani – P. keiensis – P. knoxi – P. sirius

Name

Plutonaster Sladen, 1889

Type species: Archaster bifrons Wyville Thomson, 1873, by subsequent designation by A.M. Clark & Downey (1992: 66).

Note: named and briefly described in 1885 but without species named.

Synonymy

Plutonaster Sladen, 1885: 610; 1889: 81–84; — Döderlein, 1921: 22–23; — Mortensen, 1927: 63; — Fell, 1960: 60; — A.M. Clark & Downey, 1992: 66; — H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2000: 68–69

References

• Clark, A.M. & Downey, M.E. 1992. Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. Reference page. 
• Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) orders Paxillosida, Notomyotida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, (116) Reference page. 
• Döderlein, L. 1921. Die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition. I. Porcellanasteridae, Astropectinidae, Benthopectinidae. Siboga-Expeditie. 46(1): 1–47. BHL. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Mortensen, O.T.J. 1927. Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press: London. IX, 471 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1885. The Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Narrative 1(2): 607-617. 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.