Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867

Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla & Souto, Camilla, 2021, Taxonomy of the sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Bahia State, including ontogenetic variation and an illustrated key to the Brazilian species, Zootaxa 4955 (1), pp. 1-78 : 55

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Genus Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 View in CoL (type by monotypy).

Remarks. Coscinasterias includes four species: C. acutispina (Stimpson, 1842) and C. muricata Verrill, 1870 from the Pacific Ocean, C. calamaria ( Gray, 1840) from South Africa and Australia, and C. tenuispina ( Lamarck, 1816) from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
Order	Forcipulatida
Family	Asteriidae

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