Family BRISINGIDAE
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
Although 19 genera are known in the cosmopolitan family Brisingidae, only a single genus and two species are recorded in Australian waters.
Brisingidae are one of two families in the order Brisingida and are distinguished from the second family by the following combination of character states: arms many, sharply constricted at junction with the very small disc; madreporite large to medium sized; bare interradial plates absent on disc; abactinal arm plates forming costae, proximal adambulacral plates united interradially.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Downey, M.E. 1986. Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 435: 1-57 figs 1-24
Fisher, W.K. 1928. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 2. Forcipulata (part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-245 6 figs pls 1-81
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) |