Family PORCELLANASTERIDAE
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 family Porcellanasteridae is recorded from the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and southern oceans. Eleven genera are known, but only a single genus and species are recorded in Australian waters.
Porcellanasterids are distinguished within the order Paxillosida by the following combination of character states: arms five; marginals very thin, cribriform organs highly developed but (with one exception) present only between some marginals; oral interradial areas without channels.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Madsen, F.J. 1961. The Porcellanasteridae. A monographic revision of an abyssal group of sea-stars. Galathea Report 4: 34-174 figs 1-43 pls 1-12
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) |