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

Stichasteridae Perrier, 1885

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Neomorphasteridae*	Fisher, 1923	synonym

Children

Neomorphaster Sladen, 1889
Stichaster Müller & Troschel, 1840
Stichastrella Verrill, 1914

Literature

original description	Perrier, E. (1885). Sur les stellérides recueillis durant la mission du Talisman. Comptes-rendus Hébdomadaires des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris). 101: 884-887.
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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 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	McKnight, D. G. (2006). The marine fauna of New Zealand, Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 120: 1-187.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Stichasteridae 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:152515