Synonym: Valvata Perrier 1884 [replaced name]
Full reference: E. Perrier. 1884. Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueillies dans la mer des Antilles et le Golf du Mexique. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 6(2):127-276
Parent taxon: Valvatacea according to D. B. Blake et al. 2017
See also Blake 1989, Blake 2010, Blake 2018, Breton and Néraudeau 2008, Eagle 1999, Ewin and Gale 2020, Gale 1987, Mah and Blake 2012, Perrier 1884, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Carniaster, Notomyotida, Paxillosida
Subtaxa: Acanthasteridae Archasteridae Asteriaceros Asterinidae Asterodiscididae Asteropseidae Chaetasteridae Ganeriidae Geinitzaster Goniasteridae Goniasteroidea Granulosina Leptaster Mithrodiidae Odontasteridae Ophidiasteridae Oreasteridae Poraniidae Pycinasteridae Sphaerasteridae Stauranderasteridae Tumulosina
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore