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

publication ID	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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
Order	Valvatida
Family	Goniasteridae

Specimens

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