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Valvatida

123090  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123090)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Asteroidea (Class)
  6. Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
  7. Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
  8. Valvatacea (Superorder)
  9. Valvatida (Order)
Perrier, 1884
accepted
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  1. Family Acanthasteridae
  2. Family Archasteridae Viguier, 1879
  3. Family Asterinidae Gray, 1840
  4. Family Asterodiscididae Rowe, 1977
  5. Family Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
  6. Family Chaetasteridae Sladen, 1889
  7. Family Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
  8. Family Leilasteridae Jangoux & Aziz, 1988
  9. Family Mithrodiidae Viguier, 1878
  10. Family Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899
  11. Family Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
  12. Family Oreasteridae Fisher, 1908
  13. Family Podosphaerasteridae Fujita & Rowe, 2002
  14. Family Poraniidae Perrier, 1894
  15. Family Solasteridae Viguier, 1878
  16. Family Sphaerasteridae Schöndorf, 1906 †
  17. Family Stauranderasteridae Spencer, 1914 †
  18. Family Anseropodidae Fisher, 1906 accepted as Asterinidae Gray, 1840
  19. Family Asteropidae Fisher, 1908 accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
  20. Family Cryasteridae Koehler, 1896 accepted as Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889 accepted as Ganeriinae Sladen, 1889
  21. Family Ganeriidae Sladen, 1889 accepted as Ganeriinae Sladen, 1889
  22. Family Gnathasteridae Koehler, 1924 accepted as Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899 (Invalidated by the synonymy of Gnathaster Sladen 1889 with Odontaster Verrrill, 1880)
  23. Family Gymnasteriidae Sladen, 1889 accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
  24. Family Linckiidae Viguier, 1878 accepted as Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
  25. Family Mimasteridae Verrill, 1914 accepted as Radiasteridae Fisher, 1916
  26. Family Pentacerotidae Gray, 1840 † accepted as Stauranderasteridae Spencer, 1914 †
  27. Family Pentopliidae H.E.S. Clark, 1971 accepted as Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841 (Pentopliidae synonymized into Goniasteridae by Blake, 1987.)
  28. Family Pycinasteridae Spencer & Wright, 1966 † accepted as Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
  29. Family Valvasteridae Viguier, 1879 accepted as Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976 (monotypic family synonymized into Asteropseidae by Blake (1980))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
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. <em>Archives (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)).</em> 2. sér., t. 6.:127-276., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44579946
page(s): 154 [details] OpenAccess publication
WoRMS (2025). Valvatida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123090 on 2025-04-27
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Hansson, Hans
2008-01-19 09:31:50Z
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Mah, Christopher
2011-10-20 21:42:30Z
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Mah, Christopher

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Nomenclature

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. <em>Archives (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)).</em> 2. sér., t. 6.:127-276., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44579946
page(s): 154 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Taxonomy

status source Mah, C.; Foltz, D. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 161(4): 769-788., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00659.x/full [details] 

Other

context source (PeRMS) Solís-Marín, F. A.; Alvarado, J. J.; Abreu-Pérez, M.; Aguilera, O.; Alió, J.; Bacallado-Aránega, J. J.; Barraza, E.; Benavides-Serrato, M.; Benítez-Villalobos, F.; Betancourt-Fernández, L.; Borges, M.; Brandt, M.; Brogger, M. I.; Borrero-Pérez, G. H.; Buitrón-Sánchez, E.; Campos, L. S.; Cantera, J.; Clemente, S.; Cohen-Renjifo, M.; Coppard, S.; Costa-Lotufo, L. V.; del Valle-García, R.; Díaz, Y.; Díaz de Vivar, M. E.; Díaz-Martínez, J. P.; Durán-González, A.; Epherra, L.; Escolar, M.; Francisco, V.; Freire, C. A.; García-Arrarás, E.; Gil, D. G.; Guarderas, P.; Hadel, V. F.; Hearn, A.; Hernández, J. C.; Hernández-Delgado, E. A.; Herrera-Moreno, A.; Herrero-Pérezrul, M. D.; Hooker, Y.; Honey-Escandón, M. B. I.; Lodeiros, C.; Luzuriaga, M.; Manso, C. L. C.; Martín, A.; Martinez, M. I.; Martínez, S.; Moro-Abad; Mutschke, E.; Navarro, J. C.; Neira, R.; Noriega, N.; Palleiro-Nayar, J. S.; Pérez, A. F.; Pérez-Ruzafa, A.; Prieto-Rios, E.; Reyes, J.; Rodríguez, R.; Rubilar, T.; Sancho-Mejía, T.; Sangil, C.; Silva, J. R. M. C.; Sonnenholzner, J. I.; Ventura, C. R.; Tablado, A.; Tavares, Y.; Tiago, C. G.; Tuya, F.;Williams, S. M. (2013). Appendix. <em>In: J. J. Alvarado & F. A. Solís-Marín (eds), Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America.</em> pp. 471-510. Springer; Berlin & Heidelberg. page(s): 543-654. [details] 

additional source Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. <i>Chapman & Hall Identification Guides</i>, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Blake, D. B. (1987). A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 21(2): 481-528., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222938700771141 [details] 

additional source Blake, D.B. (1980). On the affinites of three small sea-star families. Journal of Natural History 14: 163-182 [details] 

additional source Blake, D.B. (1981).A reassessment of the sea-star orders Valvatida and Spinulosida. Journal of Natural History 15: 375-394 [details] 

additional source Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. <em>In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies.</em> 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
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