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Petrasteridae (disused)

Asteroidea - Petrasteridae

Taxonomy
Petrasteridae was named by Spencer (1951). It is not extant. Its type is Petraster.

It was assigned to Pustulosa by Spencer (1951) and Owen (1965); to Hemizonina by Spencer and Wright (1966); to Pustulosida by Blake (1989); and to Asteroidea by Blake et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Uranasteridae Spencer pp. 104-105
1951Petrasteridae Spencer p. 122
1965Petrasteridae Owen p. 567
1966Petrasteridae Spencer and Wright p. U43
1989Petrasteridae Blake p. 212
2016Petrasteridae Blake et al. p. 167

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
RankNameAuthor
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
familyPetrasteridae
familyPetrasteridae

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.

Fm. †Petrasteridae Spencer 1951
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Invalid names: Uranasteridae Spencer 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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