Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Valvatacea

Paxillosida Perrier, 1884

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Astropectinidae Gray, 1840
Benthopectinidae Verrill, 1899
Ctenodiscidae Sladen, 1889
Goniopectinidae Verrill, 1889
Luidiidae Sladen, 1889
Porcellanasteridae Sladen, 1883
Pseudarchasteridae Sladen, 1889
Radiasteridae Fisher, 1916

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: モミジガイ目

Literature

original description	Perrier, E. (1884). Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueilliés dans la mer des Antilles et le golfe du Mexique : durant les expéditions de dragace faites sous la direction de M. Alexandre Agassiz. Archives (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)). 2. sér., t. 6.:127-276.
basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
basis of record	Clark, A. M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 3: 225-347.
status source	Mah, C.; Foltz, D. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161(4): 769-788.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Paxillosida. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123088