Published June 16, 2025
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Astropectinidae Gray 1840
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Marine Biology, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Khorramshahr, Iran
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
- 3. Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran
- 4. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
- 5. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV 4 7 AL, UK
Description
Family Astropectinidae Gray, 1840
Of the Astropectinidae, only the genus Astropecten is currently known from the Persian Gulf. Five species have been recorded from this region, of which four are represented in the current study. Astropecten polyacanthus is represented by two subspecies: A. polycanthus polyacanthus, Müller & Troschel, 1842 and A. polyacanthus phragmorus Fisher, 1913. All appear to be relatively common in soft substrates throughout the northern Persian Gulf, although some are relatively localised.
Notes
Published as part of Pourvali, Naser, Aliabadi, Mohammad-Ali Salari, Salamat, Negin, Hesni, Majid Askari, Ranjbar, Mohammad Sharif, Carter, Hugh & Price, Andrew. R. G., 2025, Systematics, distribution and ecology of sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf and a revised identification key, pp. 201-234 in Zootaxa 5647 (3) on page 208, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5647.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15819780
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Paxillosida
- Family
- Astropectinidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Astropectinidae Gray, 1840 sec. Pourvali, Aliabadi, Salamat, Hesni, Ranjbar, Carter & Price, 2025
References
- Gray, J. E. (1840) A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1, 6 (37), 175-184 + 275 - 290. https://doi.org/10.1080/03745484009443296
- Muller, J. H. & Troschel, F. H. (1842) System der Asteriden. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 134 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11715
- Fisher, W. K. (1913) Four new genera and fifty-eight new species of starfishes from the Philippine Islands, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 43, 599-648. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.43-1944.599