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

Pentagonasterinae Perrier, 1884

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Pentagonaster Gray, 1840
Tosia Gray, 1840

Literature

original description

Perrier, E. (1884). Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueilliés dans la mer des Antilles et le golfe du Mexique : durant les expéditions de dragace faites sous la direction de M. Alexandre Agassiz. Archives (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)). 2. sér., t. 6.:127-276.

basis of record

Mah, C. (2007). Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae. Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 311-339.

identification resource

Mah, C. (2007). Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae. Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 311-339.

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Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Pentagonasterinae Perrier, 1884. 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:196205

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2014-06-11 by Christopher Mah

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