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

Freyella Perrier, 1885

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Freyellidea*	Fisher, 1917	synonym

Children

Freyella benthophila Sladen, 1889
Freyella edwardsi Perrier, 1885
Freyella elegans (Verrill, 1884)
Freyella recta Koehler, 1907

Literature

original description	Perrier, E. (1885). Premiére note Préliminaire des les Echinodermes, recueillis durant les campagnes de dragages sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie. 22(8): 1-72.
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.
identification resource	Korovchinsky, N.M. and Galkin, S.V. (1984). New data on the fauna of starfishes of the genus Freyella (Brisingidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 63(8): 1205-1215.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Freyella Perrier, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123217