Asteroidea name details
original description
Gray, J.E. (1847). Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 72-83., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862856 page(s): 75 [details]
source of synonymy
Walenkamp, J.H.C. (1990). Systematics and zoogeography of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Zoologische Verhandelingen 261, Leiden. 86 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From other sources
Description Also distributed in Bay of Bengal, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Remark In family Oreasteridae in Clark & Rowe (1971).
Type locality: Gray gives no locality; Perrier (1875)says that it is from NE China, which seems highly improbable (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Type species of the genus Asterodiscus Gray, 1847 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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