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Asterinidae
Taxonomy
Asterinidae was named by Gray (1840). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Gale (1987) and paraphyletic by Mah and Blake (2012).
It was assigned to Leptognathina by Spencer and Wright (1966) and Hess (1972); to Spinulosida by Gale (2011); and to Valvatida by Perrier (1893), Gale (1987), Blake (1989), Mah and Blake (2012) and Gale (2020).
It was assigned to Leptognathina by Spencer and Wright (1966) and Hess (1972); to Spinulosida by Gale (2011); and to Valvatida by Perrier (1893), Gale (1987), Blake (1989), Mah and Blake (2012) and Gale (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1840 | Asterinidae Gray p. 228 |
1893 | Asterinidae Perrier p. 849 |
1966 | Asterinidae Spencer and Wright p. U68 |
1972 | Asterinidae Hess p. 22 |
1987 | Asterinidae Gale p. 125 |
1989 | Asterinidae Blake p. 213 |
2011 | Asterinidae Gale p. 62 |
2012 | Asterinidae Mah and Blake p. 3 |
2020 | Asterinidae Gale p. 5 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available