Hippasteria Gray 1840

Mah, Christopher L., 2016, Deep-sea (> 1000 m) Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) from the North Pacific, including an overview of Sibogaster, Bathyceramaster n. gen. and three new species, Zootaxa 4175 (2), pp. 101-141 : 116-117

Hippasteria Gray 1840

Gray 1840: 279; 1866: 9; Perrier 1875: 271; (1876: 86); Sladen 1889: 341; Fisher 1911: 223; Verrill 1914: 300; Koehler 1924: 178; Mortensen 1927: 88; Dons 1937: 17; Fisher 1940: 125; Djakonov 1950: 51 (1968: 42); Bernasconi 1964: 253; Halpern 1970: 183; A.M.Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976: 63; Clark and Downey 1992: 246; H.E.S. Clark & McKnight, 2001: 54; Mah et al. 2010: 284. (as Hippasteria )

Dons 1937: 17 [as Hippasteria (Euhippasteria) ]

Dons 1937: 17 [as Hippasteria (Nehippasteria) }

Fisher 1905: 311; 1911: 237; Spencer & Wright 1966: U58; A.M. Clark 1993: 251; Mah et al., 2010: 276 (as Cryptopeltaster )

Codoceo & Andrade 1978: 379 (as Criptopeltaster).

Comment. Hippasteria and related taxa have been the subject of recent revisionary work ( Mah et al., 2010; Mah et al. 2014). Cryptopeltaster 1905 was found to be a synonym of Hippasteria by Mah et al (2014). Most genera of hippasterines, especially Evoplosoma and Hippasteria have been observed to show some predation on cnidarians, mostly on octocorals ( Mah et al. 2010; Mah 2015), with some observations of feeding on sea anemones by H. phrygiana in the Atlantic (review in Mah et al. 2010).