Mediaster
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| Mediaster | |
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| Mediaster ornatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Valvatida |
| Family: | Goniasteridae |
| Genus: | Mediaster Stimpson, 1857[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Mediaster aequalis Stimpson, 1857 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Mediaster is a genus of starfish in the family Goniasteridae. It was circumscribed in 1857 by William Stimpson for M. aequalis, the genus's type species.[2] Its junior synonym is the genus Isaster, which was circumscribed in 1894 by Addison Emery Verrill for the species now known as M. bairdi.[3] Verrill himself synonymized the two genus names in 1899.[4]
