Mediaster

Mediaster
Mediaster ornatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Echinodermata
Class:Asteroidea
Order:Valvatida
Family:Goniasteridae
Genus:Mediaster
Stimpson, 1857[1][2]
Type species
Mediaster aequalis
Stimpson, 1857
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]

Mediaster is a genus of starfish in the family Goniasteridae. It was circumscribed in 1857 by William Stimpson for M. aequalis, the genus's type species.[2] Its junior synonym is the genus Isaster, which was circumscribed in 1894 by Addison Emery Verrill for the species now known as M. bairdi.[3] Verrill himself synonymized the two genus names in 1899.[4]

Species

As of 2017, the World Register of Marine Species lists the following species as being in the genus:[1]

  • Mediaster aequalis Stimpson, 1857
  • Mediaster arcuatus (Sladen, 1889)
  • Mediaster australiensis H.L. Clark, 1916
  • Mediaster bairdi (Verrill, 1882)
  • Mediaster boardmani (Livingstone, 1934)
  • Mediaster brachiatus Goto, 1914
  • Mediaster capensis H.L. Clark, 1923
  • Mediaster gartrelli H.E.S. Clark, 2001
  • Mediaster murrayi Macan, 1938
  • Mediaster ornatus Fisher, 1906
  • Mediaster pedicellaris (Perrier, 1881)
  • Mediaster praestans Livingstone, 1933
  • Mediaster sladeni Benham, 1909
  • Mediaster tenellus Fisher, 1905
  • Mediaster transfuga Ludwig, 1905

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mah, Christopher (2016). "Mediaster Stimpson, 1857". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 Stimpson, William (1857). "On the Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific Shores of North America". Boston Journal of Natural History. 6 (4): 530–531. Pl. 23, figs. 7–11.
  3. 1 2 Verrill, A. E. (1894). "Descriptions of new species of starfishes and ophiurans, with a revision of certain species formerly described; mostly from the collections made by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 17 (1000): 257–262.
  4. ↑ Verrill, A. E. (1899). "Revision of certain Genera and Species of Starfishes with descriptions of new forms". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10: 181.


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