- Asterias
image_caption = "Asterias rubens "
regnum =Animal ia
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 theAsteriidae family ofstarfish . It includes several of the best-known species of sea stars, including the (Atlantic)common starfish , "Asterias rubens", and thenorthern 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"] byThomas Say (1825). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; vol. 5, pt. 1
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