Family ASTROPECTINIDAE
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 family Astropectinidae is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific region. It includes 25 genera, eight of which are recorded in Australian waters, represented by 23 species.
Astropectinids are distinguished from other families within the order Paxillosida by the following combination of character states: arms five; tube feet tapered to rounded or knob-like tips; ampullae double; edge of body defined by well developed supero- and infero-marginal plates; aboral surface with paxillae; oral interradial areas with flat ossicles extending a greater or lesser distance into arms; superambulacral ossicles present.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Döderlein, L. 1917. Die Asteriden der Siboga Expedition. I. Die Gattung Astropecten und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga-Expéditie Report 46(a): 1-191 figs 1-20 pls 1-17
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.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 04-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |