Rosaster

Rosaster alexandri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
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: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Goniasteridae
Genus: Rosaster
Species: R. alexandri – R. attenuatus – R. bipunctus – R. cassidatus – R. confinis – R. endilius – R. florifer – R. mamillatus – R. mimicus – R. nannus – R. symbolicus

Name

Rosaster Perrier, 1894

Type species: Pentagonaster alexandri Perrier, 1881, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Rosaster Perrier, 1894: 386–387; — Fisher, 1913: 629–631; — H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 126.
• Nymphaster (Nereidaster) Verrill, 1899: 186 [in text].
  • Type species: Nymphaster symbolicus Sladen, 1889, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Fisher (1913: 629).
• Nereidaster Verrill, 1899; — Fisher, 1906: 1048–1049.
  • Type species: Nymphaster symbolicus Sladen, 1889, by original designation.
  • Synonymised by Fisher (1913: 629).

References

• Clark, H.E.S. & McKnight, D.G. 2001. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Echinodermata: Asteroidea (sea-stars) order Valvatida. NIWA biodiversity memoir. 117: 1–269. PDF Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1906. The Starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 23(3): 987–1130. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Perrier, E. 1894. Échinodermes. I. Stellérides. Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. 3:1-431, 26 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Verrill, A.E. 1899. Revision of certain Genera and Species of Starfishes, with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10(1): 145-234. BHL. Reference page.