Circeaster

Circeaster arandae

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Animalia — Echinodermata

Classis : Asteroidea 
Ordo : Valvatida 
Familia : Goniasteridae 
Genus : Circeaster 
Koehler, 1909

   

Subdivisiones: Species

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Circeaster est genus Asteroideorum zonae abyssopelagicae familiae Goniasteridarum.

Descriptio, habitatio, distributio

Discus medius harum stellarum marinarum est planus et latus, quinque bracchiis decrescentibus praeditus. Lamina marginalia sunt crassa et bene delineata. Hae stellae marinae inter 320 et 3000 metra altum habitant, in tribus maximis telluris pelvibus oceanicis.

Species

World Register of Marine Species novem species perscribit, quae sunt:

• Circeaster americanus (A.H. Clark, 1916)
• Circeaster arandae Mah, 2006
• Circeaster helenae Mah, 2006
• Circeaster kristinae Mah, 2006
• Circeaster loisetteae Mah, 2006
• Circeaster magdalenae Koehler, 1909
• Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909
• Circeaster pullus Mah, 2006
• Circeaster sandrae Mah, 2006

Nexus interni

• Circe

Bibliographia

• Mah, C. L. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis and biogeography of the deep-sea goniasterid, Circeaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) including descriptions of six new species. Zoosystema 28(4):2 917–954.
• Mah, C. 2014. Circeaster Koehler, 1909. In World Asteroidea database, ed. C. L. Mah. World Register of Marine Species.

Nexus externi

Vide "Circeastrum" apud Vicispecies.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Circeastrum spectant.