Asteroidea taxon details
original description
Fisher, W.K. (1908). Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous collections (Quaterly).</em> 52: 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8812483 page(s): 88 [details]
original description
(of Paedasterias Verrill, 1914) Verrill, A.E. (1914). Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: US National Museum 14: 1-408 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20755223 page(s): 355 [details]
basis of record
Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <i>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review</i>. 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]., available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Cryptic speciation According to mitochondrial data (CO1), some Lysasterias species in the Southern Ocean could be species complexes. [details]
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