Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1836. Prodrome d'une monographie des radiaires ou échinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel 1:168-199

Parent taxon: Goniasterinae according to W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Forbes 1841

Sister taxa: Pentagonaster, Recurvaster, Sphaeriodiscus

Subtaxa: Goniaster (Stellaster) Goniaster marginatus Goniaster scrobiculatus Goniaster stokesii

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Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Goniaster in the database

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