Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Valvatacea > Order Valvatida > Family Ophidiasteridae > Genus Hacelia

Hacelia attenuata Gray, 1840

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hacelia*	Gray, 1840	accepted genus name
*Ophidiaster (Hacelia)*	Gray, 1840	synonym

Species group names

*Asterias coriacea*	Grube, 1840	synonym
*Ophidiaster (Hacelia) attenuatus*	Gray, 1840	synonym
*Ophidiaster lessonae*	Gasco, 1876	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gladde zeester

English: smooth starfish

French: étoile de mer lisse

German: glatter Seestern

Italian: stella arancio

Spanish, Castillian: estrella de mar lisa

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History. 6: 275-290.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Hacelia attenuata Gray, 1840. 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:124094