Astropecten Gray, 1840

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, Zootaxa 5647 (3), pp. 201-234 : 208

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Astropecten Gray, 1840
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Genus Astropecten Gray, 1840 View in CoL

Type: Asterias aranciaca Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation ( Fisher 1908)

Diagnosis: Usually five arms, merging with the disc to produce rounded inter-radial arc. Supero-marginals usually smaller than infero-marginals, but much larger than, and distinct from, adjacent abactinall paxillae. Infero-marginal plates with irregularly distributed, horse-shoe shaped tubercles bearing conspicuous erect or appressed spines fringing the ambitus. Actinal interradial areas small, restricted to disc, usually only in a single series. Adambulacral furrow with three spines, only ambulacrals, superambulacrals and madreporite unarmoured with spines, spinules or granules. Modified from Clark and Downey, 1992.

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