Plutonaster: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Paxillosida
- Family
- Astropectinidae
- Genus
- Plutonaster
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Plutonaster
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Plutonaster
Plutonaster is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Astropectinidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
- Plutonaster agassizi (Verrill, 1880)
- Plutonaster ambiguus Sladen, 1889
- Plutonaster bifrons (Wyville Thomson, 1873)
- Plutonaster complexus H.E.S Clark & D.G.McKnight, 2000
- Plutonaster edwardsi (Perrier, 1882)
- Plutonaster efflorescens (Perrier, 1884)
- Plutonaster fragilis H.E.S.Clark, 1970
- Plutonaster hikurangi H.E.S Clark & D.G.McKnight, 2000
- Plutonaster intermedius (Perrier, 1881)
- Plutonaster jonathani H.E.S Clark & D.G.McKnight, 2000
- Plutonaster keiensis Döderlein, 1921
- Plutonaster knoxi Fell, 1958
- Plutonaster sirius A.H.Clark, 1917
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Astromesites
- Astropecten
- Astropectinides
- Bathybiaster
- Blakiaster
- Bollonaster
- Bunodaster
- Craspidaster
- Ctenophoraster
- Ctenopleura
- Dipsacaster
- Dytaster
- Koremaster
- Leptychaster
- Lonchotaster
- Macroptychaster
- Mimastrella
- Patagiaster
- Persephonaster
- Plutonaster
- Proserpinaster
- Psilaster
- Tethyaster
- Thrissacanthias
- Tritonaster
- Trophodiscus