Family ZOROASTERIDAE
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 Zoroasteridae is known from tropical Indo-Pacific waters. Three of the seven known genera are recorded in Australian waters, represented by four species.
Zoroasterids are distinguished within the order Forcipulatida by the following combination of character states: arms five; disc small, with enlarged disc plates; arms normally long, subcylindrical, with ossicles in longitudinal and transverse series; alternate carinate and non-carinate adambulacral plates; superambulacral plates present; straight pedicellariae only.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Downey, M.E. 1970. Zorocallida, new order and Doraster constellatus, new genus and species, with notes on the Zoroasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 64: 1-18 figs 1-11
Fisher, W.K. 1928. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 2. Forcipulata (part). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-245 6 figs pls 1-81
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
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 04-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |