Asterias

Taxobox
name = "Asterias"

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image_caption = "Asterias rubens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Echinodermata
classis = Asteroidea
ordo = Forcipulatida
familia = Asteriidae
genus = "Asterias"
genus_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Asterias" is a genus of the Asteriidae family of starfish. 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".

pecies

* "Asterias amurensis" Lütken, 1871
* "Asterias forbesi"
* "Asterias rathbuni"
* "Asterias rubens" Linnaeus, 1758
* "Asterias tanneri"
* "Asterias vulgaris"

External links

* [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Asterias.htm British Marine Life Study Society page on "Asterias rubens"]
* [http://nolan.acnatsci.org/articles/1063130.953/1.PDF "On the species of the Linnaean genus Asterias inhabiting the coast of the United States"] by Thomas Say (1825). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; vol. 5, pt. 1