Asteroidea - Valvatida - Ganeriidae
Full reference: W. P. Sladen. 1889. The Asteroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger 1873-1876, Zoology 30:1-935
Parent taxon: Valvatida according to D. B. Blake 1989
See also Blake 1981, Gale 1987, Mah and Blake 2012 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Acanthasteridae, Archasteridae, Asteriaceros, Asterinidae, Asterodiscididae, Asteropseidae, Chaetasteridae, Geinitzaster, Goniasteridae, Goniasteroidea, Granulosina, Leptaster, Mithrodiidae, Odontasteridae, Ophidiasteridae, Oreasteridae, Poraniidae, Pycinasteridae, Sphaerasteridae, Stauranderasteridae, Tumulosina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ganeriidae in the database