Solaster Forbes, 1839

Clark, Roger N. & Jewett, Stephen C., 2011, Three new sea stars (Asteroidea: Solasteridae & Pterasteridae) from the Aleutian Islands, Zootaxa 3051, pp. 1-13 : 2

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Solasteridae with one series of well developed marginal paxillae, the superomarginals always markedly smaller than inferomarginals; abactinal skeleton of cruciform or stellate plate, either closely placed or forming by means of slender intermediate ossicles, an open meshwork. Abactinal pseudopaxillae spaced or crowded, small to large, fascicular, tabulate, or penicillate. Actinal intermediate plates extending more or less along the ray. Rays more than five. (modified from Fisher, 1911).

Type: Asterias endeca Linnaeus, 1771 (by original designation).