Family RADIASTERIDAE
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 small family Radiasteridae is recorded from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Tasman region. Two genera are known, one of which is recorded from a single species in Australian waters.
This family is distinguished from others within the order Velatida by the following combination of character states: marginals small and subpaxilliform; membranous interbrachial septa and superambulacral plates present; aboral plates consisting of penicillate paxillae; actinal plates tabulate and imbricated in transverse series; tube feet with terminal sucker.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Fisher, W.K. 1916. New East Indian starfishes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29: 27-36
Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4-U107 figs 1-89 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 1.
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) |