Persephonaster

Persephonaster croceus

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: Persephonaster
Species: †P. arduennensis – P. armiger – P. asper – P. celebensis – P. cingulatus – P. coelochilus – P. croceus – P. echinulatus – P. exquisitus – P. facetus – P. gracilis – P. habrogenys – P. leptactis – P. misakiensis – P. monostoechus – P. oediplax – P. patagiatus – P. pulcher – P. rhodopeplus – P. roulei – P. sewelli – P. sphenoplax – P. suluensis – P. tenuis

Name

Persephonaster Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

• Type species: Persephonaster croceus Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

Synonymy

• Psilasteropsis Fisher, 1906

• Type species: Psilasteropsis cingulata Fisher, 1906 (by original designation)

References

• Alcock, A.W. 1893. Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine Survey Steamer `Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding.--Series II., No. 7. An account of the collection of deep-sea Asteroidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 6) 11(62) (art. 15): 73–121. BHLReference page.  [as Persephonaster p. 81–82]
• Fisher, W.K. 1906. The Starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 23(3): 987–1130. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Psilasteropsis p. 430]
• Fisher, W.K. 1913. Four new genera and fifty-eight new species of starfishes from the Philippine Islands, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 43(1944): 599–648. BHL Reference page.  [as Psilasteropsis p. 612–613]
• 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.  [as Persephonaster p. 64]
• Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1891e. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator,’ Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding.—Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91. Annals and magazine of natural history. (6)8(48): 427–452, pl. 17. BHL. Reference page.