Stellaster (Goniasteridae)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Goniasteridae
Genus: Stellaster
Species: S. childreni – S. convexus – S. inspinosus – S. princeps – S. septemtrionalis – S. squamulosus – S. tuberculosus

Name

Stellaster Gray, 1840

Type species: Stellaster childreni Gray, 1840, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Stellaster Gray, 1840: 277; — Sladen, 1889: 321–322; — Mah, 2025: 285–286.
• Goniaster (Stellaster) Gray, 1840

References

• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus) (Continued from p. 184.) Annals and magazine of natural history 6(37): 275–290. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443296 BHL Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2025b. New taxa of Valvatida (Asteroidea) with an overview of bivalve pedicellariae proposed form and function. Megataxa 18(1): 262–347. DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.18.1.3 . Reference page. 
• Sladen, 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.