Leptasterias

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Leptasterias pusilla
Nucella lima 001.jpg
The whelk Nucella lima being attacked by Leptasterias hexactis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Asteroidea
Order:
Forcipulatida
Family:
Asteriidae
Genus:
Leptasterias

Verrill, 1866 [1]
Species
See text

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. L. 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 Fisher, 1930
    • (Verrill, 1909)
    • (Brandt, 1835)
    • Verrill, 1914
    • Fisher, 1930
    • Leptasterias polaris (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Djakonov, 1938
  • Subgenus Verrill, 1866
  • Unallocated
    • Leptasterias aequalis (Stimpson, 1862)
    • Fisher, 1930
    • (Murdoch, 1885)
    • Fisher, 1930
    • (Verrill, 1895)
    • Heding, 1936
    • Heding, 1936
    • (Stimpson, 1862)
    • (Levinsen, 1887)
    • Heding, 1935
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Djakonov, 1929
    • (Levinsen, 1887)
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • (Steenstrup, 1857)
    • Leptasterias hexactis (Stimpson, 1862)
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • (Forbes, 1840)
    • Verrill, 1895
    • Fisher, 1930
    • (Danielssen & Koren, 1882)
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Baranova, 1962
    • Verrill, 1914
    • (Stimpson, 1853)
    • (Lutken, 1860) (nomen dubium)
    • (Brandt, 1851)
    • Djakonov, 1929
    • Leptasterias pusilla Fisher, 1930
    • Djakonov, 1930
    • (H.L. Clark, 1908)
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Fisher, 1930
    • Djakonov, 1938
    • Clark & Jewett, 2015
    • Leptasterias tenera (Stimpson, 1862)
    • Djakonov, 1938

References[]

  1. ^ a b Mah, Christopher (2010). "Leptasterias Verrill, 1866". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  2. ^ Lambert, Philip (2001). Sea stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound. pp. 117–126. ISBN 9780774808255.
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