Genus Calliaster Gray, 1840

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• Calliaster 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 [280].

  Type species:

   Calliaster childreni Gray, 1840 by monotypy.
• Mabahissaster Macan, T.T. 1938. Asteroidea. 1933–34. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 4(9): 323-435 figs 1-12 pls 1-6 [391].

  Type species:

   Mabahissaster zengi Macan, 1938 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (based on the description and figures of Mabahissaster zengi Macan, 1938, type species of Mabahissaster, and the original description and figures and available specimens of Calliaster childreni Gray, 1840, type species of Calliaster)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

General References

Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (the species Calliaster spinosus H.L. Clark, 1916, is herein transferred to the genus Milteliphaster with which it shows a similar facies with the type species Milteliphaster woodmasoni Alcock, 1893, including specifically the characters of long, slender, flexible rays (R/r=›3:1), marginal plates box-like, more or less flattened, not markedly convex, usually in excess of 12 along each side of the rays compared with the concept accepted herein of the genus Calliaster, a stout form with rigid arms (R/r=‹3:1), marginal plates very prominent, markedly convex, usually less than 12 along each side of the ray. On this basis also, the species Calliaster regenerator Döderlein, 1922, is herein transferred to Milteliphaster)

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