Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea (/ˌæstəˈrɔɪdiə/). Common usage frequently finds these names being also...

radially divergent axes of symmetry. The subphylum includes the class Asteroidea (the starfish), the class Ophiuroidea (the brittle stars and basket stars)...

Historically, taxonomists believed that the Ophiuroidea were sister to the Asteroidea as the clade Asterozoa, or that they were sister to the (Holothuroidea...

The Valvatida are an order of starfish in the class Asteroidea, which contains 695 species in 172 genera in 17 families. The order encompasses both tiny...

Stelleroidea is a superclass of marine echinoderms including three classes: Asteroidea: true sea stars Ophiuroidea: brittle stars and basket stars Somasteroidea...

parasites) Eucycliophora Dicyemida Crinoidea (sea lilies and feather stars) Asteroidea (star fish) Ophiuroidea (brittle stars) Echinoidea (sea urchins) Holothuroidea...

the Indo-Pacific horned sea star, Protoreaster nodosus (Echinodermata; Asteroidea)". Marine Biology. 156: 55–63. doi:10.1007/s00227-008-1064-2. hdl:2066/72067...

The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk is a collective term for multiple Late Jurassic lithographic limestones in southeastern Germany, which...

Mortensen, in Echinoderms of South Africa (Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea), 1933. Mah, C.L. (2018). World Asteroidea Database. Callopatiria formosa (Mortensen...

Heliaster microbrachius is a species of Asteroidea (sea stars) in the family Heliasteridae. Heliaster microbrachius can reach a diameter of 60–125 millimetres...

which represents all post-Paleozoic asteroids within the Class Asteroidea. Class Asteroidea, Infraclass Concentricycloidea, Order Peripoda (or Peripodida)...

New Genus and Species, with Notes on the Zoroasteridae (Echinodermata; Asteroidea). Smithsonian contributions to Zoology 64: 1–18. SI-repository 1970 -...

Ophiuroidea Brittle stars Asteroidea Starfish...

(2009). New asterinid species from Africa and Australia (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 66, 203–213. Gray, J...

Döderlein, 1915 List source : C.L. Mah (2010). "Asteroidea taxon details for Anthenea Gray, 1840". World Asteroidea Database. Retrieved June 29, 2011. v t e...

CL (ed.). "Parvulastra parvivipara (Keough & Dartnall, 1978)". World Asteroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2013-05-24. "Patiriella...

The Nusplingen Limestone (German: Nusplingen Plattenkalk) is a geological formation in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It preserves fossils dating to the Kimmeridgian...

(five species) "Asteroidea". Tolweb.org. 2004-10-07. Retrieved 2010-07-30. Mah, C. (2014). Mah CL (ed.). "Brisingida". World Asteroidea database. World...

behavior of the Indo-Pacific beach star, Archaster typicus (Echinodermata; Asteroidea)". Marine Biology. 158 (3): 639–648. doi:10.1007/s00227-010-1588-0. PMC 3873073...

multi-armed Antarctic sea star Labidiaster annulatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)" (PDF). Marine Ecology Progress Series. 77: 65–84. Bibcode:1991MEPS....

This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species as well as the...

2020). "A new sponge-associated starfish, Astrolirus patricki sp. nov. (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Brisingidae), from the northwestern Pacific seamounts". PeerJ...

of the Asteroidea. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0787-6.[page needed] Lawrence, John M. (2013). Starfish: Biology and Ecology of the Asteroidea. JHU Press...

Echinodermata are radially symmetric and exclusively marine, including starfish (Asteroidea), sea urchins, (Echinoidea), brittle stars (Ophiuroidea), sea cucumbers...

geographical range of the horned sea star, Protoreaster nodosus (Echinodermata; Asteroidea)". Frontiers of Biogeography. 14 (3). doi:10.21425/F5FBG56187. "Ask a...

2006 Mah, C. (2014), Circeaster Koehler, 1909 In: Mah, C.L. (2014) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species. Mah, C.L...

of digestion and reproduction never enter the arms, as they do in the Asteroidea. The underside of the disk contains the mouth, which has five toothed...

Jeffrey (1881). "1. Contributions to the Systematic Arrangement of the Asteroidea. I The species of the genus Asterias". Proceedings of the Zoological Journal...

Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut...

symmetrical, star-shaped organisms of the phylum Echinodermata and the class Asteroidea. Aside from their distinguishing shape, starfish are most recognized for...