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Schoenaster fimbriatus

Asteroidea - Cryptozonia - Schoenasteridae

Taxonomy
Palasterina (Schoenaster) fimbriata was named by Meek and Worthen (1860). It is the type species of Palasterina (Schoenaster).

It was recombined as Schoenaster fimbriatus by Meek and Worthen (1866), Schuchert (1915) and Jell (1997).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Palasterina (Schoenaster) fimbriata Meek and Worthen p. 449
1866Schoenaster fimbriatus Meek and Worthen p. 278 figs. pl. 19 fig. 7
1915Schoenaster fimbriatus Schuchert pp. 204-205 figs. pl. 35 fig. 1, 2
1997Schoenaster fimbriatus Jell pp. 309-312 figs. figs. 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderCryptozonia
superfamilySchuchertiacea
familySchoenasteridae
genusSchoenaster()
speciesfimbriatus()

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.

†Schoenaster fimbriatus Meek and Worthen 1860
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
P. Jell 1997Large, upto 15cm from arm tip to nearest op- posite arm tip. Disk with smooth, imbricate, polygonal plates dorsally, with spinose imbricate plates in ventral interradii. Ambb boot-shaped, each bearing a large, dorsally sloping, podial basin shared with the Adambb and partly by the next distal Amb. Adambb greatly expanded abradially, with expanded parts set oblique to radial line and abutting each other with large flat surfaces, with pair of larger spines dorsally and four small spines along distal margin ventrally, the number of spines decreasing distally along the ray. Mouth frame of distally expanded Ambb2 lying over short Ambb3 and 4 dorsally; Ambb, as long as Ambb2; torus on proximal face of each Ambbl, bear- ing few long spines projecting into mouth.