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

Asterias Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Allasterias*	Verrill, 1909	synonym
*Asteracanthion*	Müller & Troschel, 1840	synonym
*Asteracanthium*	Brandt, 1851	synonym
*Parasterias*	Verrill, 1914	synonym
*Stellonia*	Nardo, 1834	synonym
*Uraster*	L. Agassiz, 1836	synonym

Children

Asterias amurensis Lutken, 1871
Asterias forbesi (Desor, 1848)
Asterias rubens Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: マヒトデ属

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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.