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Cnemidactinidae

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Cnemidactinidae

Taxonomy
Cnemidactinidae was named by Spencer (1918). Its type is Cnemidactis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Urasterellidae by Blake and Rozhnov (2007).

It was assigned to Asteroidea by Spencer (1918); to Urasterina by Owen (1965); to Uractinida by Blake (1989); to Uractinina by Spencer and Wright (1966) and Blake and Guensburg (1993); and to Euaxosida by Blake (2018).

Subtaxa
Cnemidactis (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Cnemidactinidae Spencer pp. 155-156
1965Cnemidactinidae Owen p. 564
1966Cnemidactinidae Spencer and Wright p. U71
1989Cnemidactinidae Blake p. 213
1993Cnemidactinidae Blake and Guensburg p. 111
2018Cnemidactinidae Blake p. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderEuaxosida
familyCnemidactinidae
familyCnemidactinidae

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. †Cnemidactinidae Spencer 1918
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G. †Cnemidactis Spencer 1918
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Cnemidactis girvanensis Schuchert 1914
Cnemidactis macroadambulacralatas Blake and Guensburg 1993
Cnemidactis osloensis Hansen et al. 2005
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available