Genus Metrodira Gray, 1840

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• Metrodira 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 [282].

  Type species:

   Metrodira subulata Gray, 1840 by monotypy.
• Scaphaster de Loriol, P. 1899. Notes pour servir à l'étude des Echinodermes. VII. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 33(2,1): 1-34 pls 1-3 [27].

  Type species:

   Scaphaster humberti de Loriol, 1899 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blake, D.B. 1980. On the affinities of three small sea-star families. Journal of Natural History 14: 163-182 figs 1-8 [181] (also for transferral of Metrodira from its monotypic family to Echinasteridae)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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