Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa

Asteroidea de Blainville, 1830

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ambuloasteroidea Blake & Hagdorn, 2003

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zeesterren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: sea stars; starfish sources: Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

French: astéries; étoiles de mer

German: Seesterne

Japanese: hitode (ヒトデ); ヒトデ／海星綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: 불가사리

Malay: tapak sulaiman

Spanish, Castillian: estrella de mar

Swedish: sjöstjärnor

Literature

basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
additional source	Clark, A. M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 3: 225-347.
additional source	Clark, A. M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 5: 183-250.
additional source	Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366.
additional source	Blake, D. B. (1987). A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History. 21(2): 481-528.
additional source	Mah, C.L. (2006). A new species of Xyloplax from the Northeast Pacific: comparative morphology and a reassessment of phylogeny. Invertebrate Biology 125 (2): 136-153
additional source	Clark, A. M.; Mah, C. (2001). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 6: 229-347.