Genus Astropecten Gray, 1840

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• Astropecten Gray, J.E. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the Class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History ns 6: 175-184, 275-290 [180].

  Type species:

   Asterias aurantiacus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Fisher, W.K. 1908. Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 52: 87-93 [93].
• Stellaria Nardo, J.D. 1834. De Asteriis. pp. 716–717. Isis Jena Encyclopädische Zeitung. Vol. 7. [716] [junior homonym of Stellaria Schmidt, 1832 (Mollusca)].

  Type species:

   Stellaria aurantiaca Nardo, 1834 by monotypy.
• Astropectinides Verrill, A.E. 1914. Monograph of the shallow water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska Series 14(1): 1-408 pls 1-110 [321].

  Type species:

   Astropecten mesacutus Sladen, 1883 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [U45]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Clark, A.M. 1989. An index of names of recent Asteroidea—Part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida. pp. 225-347 in Jangoux, M. & Lawrence, J.M. (eds). Echinoderm Studies. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema Vol. 3. [272] (comments that, according to Downey (personal communication), Astropectinides is 'now considered to be generically distinct')

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