Hippasteria Gray, 1840

Clark, Roger N. & Jewett, Stephen C., 2011, A new sea star of the genus Hippasteria (Asteroidea: Goniasteridae) from the Aleutian Islands, Zootaxa 2963, pp. 48-54 : 49

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.278198

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6193266

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scientific name

Hippasteria Gray, 1840
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Genus Hippasteria Gray, 1840 View in CoL

Goniasteridae with large, swollen disk, and broad, short rays. Abactinal plates roundish, with peripheral fringe of minute spinelets or granules, and bearing a single spine, tubercle or bivalve pedicellaria. Marginal plates large, quadrate to rounded fringed with spinelets or granules and bearing one to five large spines, tubercles, or large bivalve pedicellaria. Adambulacral plates with one to three furrow and one or two subadambulacral spines.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Goniasteridae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Valvatida

Family

Goniasteridae

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