Adelasterias
Genus of starfish
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Adelasterias is a genus of starfish in the family Asteriidae, first described by Verrill in 1914.[1][2] It has a single species, Adelasterias papillosa (Koehler, 1906).
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Forcipulatida |
| Family: | Asteriidae |
| Genus: | Adelasterias Verrill, 1914 |
Species
The genus contains a single species, Adelasterias papillosa, named by René Koehler in 1906 for its many papillae, or protuberances. Koehler originally assigned it to Diplasterias.[3][4][5]
