MYXASTERIDAE Perrier

Mah, Christopher L., Mercier, Annie, Hamel, Jean-Francois & Nizinski, Martha, 2012, Range Extensions and Taxonomic Notes on Atlantic Myxasteridae (Velatida; Asteroidea), Zootaxa 3572, pp. 55-62 : 55-56

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MYXASTERIDAE Perrier View in CoL

Pterasteridae View in CoL (pt) Perrier, 1885a: 886; 1885b: 69.

Pterasteridae : Pythonasterinae Sladen, 1889: xxxviii, 530.

Myxasteridae Perrier, 1891 View in CoL : K177; 1893: 850; Koehler, 1896: 48; Fisher, 1906: 1096; 1911: 253; 1913: 224; Verrill, 1914: 204; Fisher, 1919: 454; Madsen, 1951: 90; Alton, 1966: 687; Clark and Downey 1992: 336; McKnight 2006: 25.

Pythonasteridae View in CoL : Perrier, 1893: 850; Verrill, 1914: 204; A.H. Clark, 1948: 76 Pythonasteridae (Myxasterinae) : Spencer and Wright, 1966: U 68

Included Genera: Asthenactis Fisher 1906 View in CoL , Myxaster Perrier 1885 View in CoL , Pythonaster Sladen 1889 View in CoL

References

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Clark, A. H. (1948) Some interesting starfishes and brittle-stars dredged by the Atlantis in mid-Atlantic. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science, 38, 75 - 58.

Clark, A. M. & Downey, M. E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman and Hall, London. 794 pp.

Fisher, W. K. (1906) The starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the US Fisheries Commission, 23, 987 - 1130.

Fisher, W. K. (1919) Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 3 (100), 1 - 547. 156 pls.

Koehler, R. (1896) Resultats scientifiques de la campagne du Caudan dans le Golfe de Gascogne. Echinodermes. Annales de l'Universite de Lyon, 26, 33 - 127.

Madsen, F. J. (1951) Asteroidea. Reports of the Swedish Deep-sea Expedition, 2 (6), 73 - 92.

Perrier, E. (1885 a) Sur les stellerides recueillis durant la mission du Talisman. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 101, 884 - 887.

Perrier, E. (1891) Echinodermes. 1. Stellerides. Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882 - 1883, 6 Zoologie, (3), 1 - 198 pp., Paris.

Perrier, E. (1893) Traite de Zoologie, 1 (2), 864 pp. Paris.

Sladen WP. (1889) Asteroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of H. M. S. Challenger, 30, 1 - 893.

Spencer, W. K. & C. W. Wright. (1966) Asterozoans, Part U: Echinodermata In R. C. Moore, ed. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 3 (1), U 4 - U 107. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS.

Verrill, A. E. (1914) Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: US National Museum, 14, 1 - 408.