Asterina (echinoderm)

Asterina is a genus of asteroideans in the family Asterinidae.

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Asterina

Asterina gibbosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Valvatida
Family:	Asterinidae
Genus:	Asterina Nardo, 1834^[1]
Type species
Asterina gibbosa (Pennant, 1777)^[2]

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The species occurring in Australian waters are considered to not be congeneric with the type species A. gibbosa (Pennant, 1777)^[2] by Rowe and Gates (1995), and will possibly be assigned to another genus or a new genus. Rowe and Gates (1995) also suggested that Asterina should be restricted to Atlantic waters.^[3]

Species

Asterina fimbriata Perrier, 1875^[4]
Asterina gibbosa (Pennant, 1777)^[2]
Asterina gracilispina Clark, 1923^[5]
Asterina hoensonae O'Loughlin, 2009^[6]
Asterina krausii Gray, 1840^[7]
Asterina lorioli Kœhler, 1910^[8]
Asterina martinbarriosi López-Márquez, Acevedo, Manjón-Cabeza, García-Jiménez, Templado & Machordom, 2018^[9]
Asterina pancerii (Gasco, 1876)^[10]
Asterina phylactica Emson & Crump, 1979^[11]
Asterina pusilla Perrier, 1875^[4]
Asterina pygmaea Verrill, 1878^[12]
Asterina squamata Perrier, 1875^[4]
Asterina stellaris Perrier, 1875^[4]
Asterina stellifera (Möbius, 1859)^[13]
- Asterina stellifera obtusa Leipoldt, 1895^[14]
Asterina vicentae López-Márquez, Acevedo, Manjón-Cabeza, García-Jiménez, Templado & Machordom, 2018^[9]

References

[1]
Nardo, I. D. (1834). De Asteriis. In Oken, L. (Ed.), Isis von Oken (pp. 716–717). Leipzig: ben Brodhaus.
[2]
Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology. Vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. London: Benj. White.
[3]
Rowe, F. & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Volume 33. Melbourne: CSIRO Australia.
[4]
Perrier, E. (1875). Revision de la Collection de Stellerides du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Paris: C. Reinwald.
[5]
Clark, H. L. (1923). The echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 13, 221–435.
[6]
O'Loughlin, P. M. (2009). New asterinid species from Africa and Australia (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 66, 203–213.
[7]
Gray, J. E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 175–184.
[8]
Kœhler, R. (1910). An Account of the Shallow-water Asteroidea. Volume 2. Calcutta: Indian Museum.
[9]
López-Márquez, V., Acevedo, I., Manjón-Cabeza, M., García-Jiménez, R., Templado, J. & Machordom, A. (2018). Looking for morphological evidence of cryptic species in Asterina Nardo, 1834 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea); the redescription of Asterina pancerii (Gasco, 1870) and the description of two new species. Invertebrate Systematics, 32(3), 505–523.
[10]
Gasco, F. (1876). Descrizione di alcuni Echinodermi nuovi o per la prima volta trovati nel Mediterraneo. Rendiconti dell' Academia delle Science Fisiche e Mathematiche, Napoli, 15, 32–41.
[11]
Emson, R. H. & Crump, R. G. (1979). Description of a new species of Asterina (Asteroidea), with an account of its ecology. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 59, 77–94.
[12]
Verrill, A. E. (1878). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America, No. 2. The American Journal of Science and Arts, 3rd series, 16(91–96), 371–378.
[13]
Möbius, K. (1859). Neue seesterne des Hamburger und Kieler Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissemschaften, 4, 1–14.
[14]
Leipoldt, F. (1895). Asteroidea der „Vettor-Pissani-“ Expedition (1882–1885). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 59, 545–654.

Asterina (echinoderm)

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