Mediaster: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Goniasteridae
- Genus
- Mediaster
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Mediaster
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mediaster
Mediaster is a genus of starfish in the family Goniasteridae. It was circumscribed in 1857 by William Stimpson for M. aequalis, the genus's type species. Its junior synonym is the genus Isaster, which was circumscribed in 1894 by Addison Emery Verrill for the species now known as M. bairdi. Verrill himself synonymized the two genus names in 1899.
...Mediaster in languages:
- Japanese
- ウデナガゴカクヒトデ属
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