Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Forcipulatacea > Order Forcipulatida

Asteriidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Asterias Linnaeus, 1758
Coronaster Perrier, 1885
Coscinasterias Verrill, 1867
Distolasterias Perrier, 1896
Icasterias Fisher, 1923
Leptasterias Verrill, 1866
Marthasterias Jullien, 1878
Orthasterias Verrill, 1914
Sclerasterias Perrier, 1891
Stephanasterias Verrill, 1871
Stylasterias Verrill, 1914
Urasterias Verrill, 1909

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Swedish: trollsjöstjärnor

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1840). XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6: 175-184.
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.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.
additional source	Mah, C.; Foltz, D. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162(3): 646-660.
identification resource	Mah, C.; Foltz, D. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162(3): 646-660.