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

Coronaster volsellatus (Sladen, 1889)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Coronaster*	Perrier, 1885	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Asterias (Stolasterias) volsellata*	Sladen, 1889	synonym
*Asterias volsellata*	Sladen, 1889	synonym
*Coronaster antonii*	Perrier, 1894	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カンムリヒトデ

Literature

additional source	Clark, A. M.; Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp.
additional source	Habe, T. ; Matsuzawa, K. (1991). Stilifer pisum Habe, Endoparasitic on a Starfish Coronaster volsellatus Sladen. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 50(1991): 79 − 80.
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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Coronaster volsellatus (Sladen, 1889). 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:123817