HIPPASTERINAE VERRILL, 1899

Mah, Christopher, Neill, Kate, Eléaume, Marc & Foltz, David, 2014, New species and global revision of Hippasteria (Hippasterinae: Goniasteridae; Asteroidea; Echinodermata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (2), pp. 422-456 : 425

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12131

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4890576

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0395879A-1C0D-FFB4-FCC8-FEBDB66C6EA2

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Carolina

scientific name

HIPPASTERINAE VERRILL, 1899
status

 

SUBFAMILY HIPPASTERINAE VERRILL, 1899 View in CoL

Verrill, 1899: 174; Fisher, 1906: 1165; 1910: 223; Spencer & Wright, 1966: U58; Mah et al., 2010: 270.

Comments

Mah et al. (2010) presented morphological evidence that supported recognition of the Hippasterinae within the Goniasteridae . Molecular evidence from Mah & Foltz (2011) also supported Hippasterinae as a discrete group.

Diagnosis

Pulpy tissue present, covering plates. Abactinal plates with spiny-granular or angular accessory fringe. Abactinal plates tightly articulated. Superomarginal and inferomarginal plates, wide to quadrate with large, prominent spines in most taxa. Pedicellariae enlarged, abundant, and often on raised base. Disk strongly swollen in most.

Included taxa

Evoplosoma Fisher, 1906 View in CoL , Gilbertaster Fisher, 1906 View in CoL , Hippasteria Gray, 1840 View in CoL , Sthenaster Mah et al., 2010 View in CoL .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Goniasteridae

Loc

HIPPASTERINAE VERRILL, 1899

Mah, Christopher, Neill, Kate, Eléaume, Marc & Foltz, David 2014
2014
Loc

Sthenaster

Mah 2010
2010
Loc

Evoplosoma

Fisher 1906
1906
Loc

Gilbertaster

Fisher 1906
1906
Loc

Hippasteria

Gray 1840
1840
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