Genus Rosaster Perrier, 1894

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rosaster Perrier, E. 1894. Echinodermes - Premiére partie. Partie descriptive. I. Stellérides. Expéditions Scientifiques du 'Travailleur' et du 'Talisman' pendent les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 3: 431 pp., 26 pls. [386].

  Type species:

   Pentagonaster alexandri Perrier, 1881 by monotypy.
• Nereidaster Verrill, A.E. 1899. Art. IV. — Revision of certain genera and species of starfishes with descriptions of new forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 145-234, pls 24-30 [186].

  Type species:

   Nymphaster symbolicus Sladen, 1889 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [U63]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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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