| Odontasteridae | |
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| Odontaster validus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Valvatida |
| Family: | Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899 [1] |
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Odontasteridae is a family of sea stars. Members of the family are known as cushion stars and have relatively broad discs and five short tapering arms.
The following genera are listed in the World Register of Marine Species: [1]
Asterias is a genus of the Asteriidae family of sea stars. It includes several of the best-known species of sea stars, including the (Atlantic) common starfish, Asterias rubens, and the northern Pacific seastar, Asterias amurensis. The genus contains a total of eight species in all. All species have five arms and are native to shallow oceanic areas of cold to temperate parts of the Holarctic. These starfish have planktonic larvae. Asterias amurensis is an invasive species in Australia and can in some years become a pest in the Japanese mariculture industry.
The Valvatida are an order of starfish in the class Asteroidea, which contains 695 species in 172 genera in 17 families.
The Asterinidae are a large family of sea stars in the order Valvatida.
The Spinulosida are an order of sea stars containing at least 120 species in seven genera and two families.
Lepetella is a genus of very small deep-sea sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetellidae.
Propilidium is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae.
Pleurotomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Inodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.
Gymnobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Propebela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Bela is a genus of sea snails; marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Mohnia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Siphonaliinae of the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Eudolium is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.
Asteropseidae is a family of sea stars. Members of the family have relatively broad discs and five short tapering arms.
Odontaster is a genus of sea stars. The type species is Odontaster hispidus.
Acodontaster is a genus of starfish in the family Odontasteridae. Members of the genus are found in the Southern Ocean, in the waters off Antarctica and the island groups nearby. Acodontaster elongatus is additionally found further north in the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern seaboard of South America.
Leptasterias is a genus of starfish in the family Asteriidae. Members of this genus are characterised by having six arms although five-armed specimens sometimes occur. L. muelleri is the type species. The taxonomy of the genus is confusing and Leptasterias hexactis seems to be a species complex. Some species brood their eggs.
Solaster is a genus of sea stars in the family Solasteridae.
The Solasteridae are a family of sea stars.
Plexauridae is a family of marine colonial octocorals in the phylum Cnidaria. Members of this family are found in shallow tropical and subtropical seas. Many species contain symbiotic photosynthetic protists called zooxanthellae.
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