Family ARCHASTERIDAE
Compiler and date details
July 2012 - Tim O’Hara, Museum Victoria
F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1995) Updated (2001) by Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
The Archasteridae are a small family comprising a single genus from the Indo-Pacific region. Two species are recorded in Australian waters.
Archasterids are superficially like the paxillosid family Astropectinidae but are included in the order Valvatida, being distinguished by the following combination of character states: tube feet with suckered discs; aboral ossicles tabulate and paxilliform, with internal imbricating ridges, arranged in oblique transverse rows on each side of conspicuous carinal series.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Fisher, W.K. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosa. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-419 pls 1-120
Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4-U107 figs 1-89 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 1.
Sukarno, M. & Jangoux, M. 1977. Révision du genre Archaster Müller et Troschel (Echinodermata, Asteroidea: Archasteridae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 91(4): 817-844 figs 1-3 pls 4-6
History of changes
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 04-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |