Leptasterias
| Leptasterias pusilla | |
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| The whelk Nucella lima being attacked by Leptasterias hexactis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Forcipulatida |
| Family: | Asteriidae |
| Genus: | Leptasterias Verrill, 1866 [1] |
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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. Asteracanthion 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.[2]
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species: [1]
- Subgenus Leptasterias (Hexasterias) Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias alaskensis (Verrill, 1909)
- Leptasterias camtschatica (Brandt, 1835)
- Leptasterias coei Verrill, 1914
- Leptasterias leptodoma Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias polaris (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
- Leptasterias polymorpha Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias schmidti Djakonov, 1938
- Subgenus Leptasterias (Leptasterias) Verrill, 1866
- Leptasterias muelleri (M. Sars, 1846)
- Unallocated
- Leptasterias aleutica Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias arctica (Murdoch, 1885)
- Leptasterias asteira Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias austera (Verrill, 1895)
- Leptasterias canuti Heding, 1936
- Leptasterias clavispina Heding, 1936
- Leptasterias compta (Stimpson, 1862)
- Leptasterias danica (Levinsen, 1887)
- Leptasterias degerboelli Heding, 1935
- Leptasterias derbeki Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias derjungini Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias fisheri Djakonov, 1929
- Leptasterias floccosa (Levinsen, 1887)
- Leptasterias granulata Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias groenlandica (Steenstrup, 1857)
- Leptasterias hexactis (Stimpson, 1862)
- Leptasterias hirsuta Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias hispida (Forbes, 1840)
- Leptasterias hispidella Verrill, 1895
- Leptasterias hylodes Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias hyperborea (Danielssen & Koren, 1882)
- Leptasterias insolens Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias kussakini Baranova, 1962
- Leptasterias leptalea Verrill, 1914
- Leptasterias littoralis (Stimpson, 1853)
- Leptasterias mexicana (Lutken, 1860) (nomen dubium)
- Leptasterias ochotensis (Brandt, 1851)
- Leptasterias orientalis Djakonov, 1929
- Leptasterias pusilla Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias siberica Djakonov, 1930
- Leptasterias similispinis (H.L. Clark, 1908)
- Leptasterias squamulata Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias stolacantha Fisher, 1930
- Leptasterias subarctica Djakonov, 1938
- Leptasterias tenera (Stimpson, 1862)
- Leptasterias vinogradovi Djakonov, 1938
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mah, Christopher (2010). "Leptasterias Verrill, 1866". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ↑ Lambert, Philip (2001). Sea stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound. Google Books. pp. 117–126.