Sclerasterias mollis

Sclerasterias mollis

Sclerasterias mollis

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: Asteriidae
Genus: Sclerasterias
Species: Sclerasterias mollis

Name

Sclerasterias mollis (Hutton, 1872)

• original combination: Asterias mollis Hutton, 1872
• Syntype: NRM EVtype Type-5294.

Synonymy

• Asterias mollis Hutton, 1872a: 812; 1872b: 5.
• Distolasterias mollis (Hutton, 1872) Fisher, 1923: 255.
• Sclerasterias mollis (Hutton, 1872) Fisher, 1924: 4; — Mortensen, 1925: 318–319, pl. 14 figs. 13–14, textfig. 20; — H.E.S. Clark, 1970: 23–24, fig. 1l; — McKnight, 2006: 64–66, pl. 60.

References

• Clark, H.E.S. 1970. Sea-stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from" Eltanin" Cruise 26, with a Review of the New Zealand Asteroid Fauna. Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington. 52: 1–34. PDF. Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1923a. XXVIII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(68): 247-258. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632942 Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1924. The genus Sclerasterias Perrier. Bulletin de l’Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 444: 1–8. Reference page. 
• Hutton F.W. 1872a. Descriptions of some new Starfishes from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1878: 810–812. BHL. Reference page. 
• Hutton F.W. 1872b. Catalogue of the Echinodermata of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. James Hugues, Printer, Lameton Quay, Wellington. Pp. i–vi, 1–17. 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. 
• Mortensen, O.T.J. 1925. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXIX. Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands. III–V. Asteroidea, Holothurioidea and Crinoidea. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn. 79(15): 261–420. PDF. Reference page.