Family MITHRODIIDAE
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 Mithrodiidae are a small family known from the Indo-Pacific and Panamic regions. One species in each of the two known genera is recorded in Australian waters.
Mithrodiids are distinguished from other families within the order Valvatida by the following combination of character states: skeleton open or compact retictulate; whole surface, including spines, overlaid with thick skin bearing rough granules, tubercles or spinelets; interbrachial septa absent; ampullae double; pedicellariae elongate, multi-valved.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1980. On the affinities of three small sea-star families. Journal of Natural History 14: 163-182 figs 1-8
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Pope, E.C. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1977. A new genus and two new species in the family Mithrodiidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) with comments on the status of the species of Mithrodia Gray, 1840. The Australian Zoologist 19(2): 201-216 figs 1-17
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) |