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

Valvatida Perrier, 1884

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Archasteridae Viguier, 1879
Asterinidae Gray, 1840
Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
Chaetasteridae Sladen, 1889
Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841
Odontasteridae Verrill, 1899
Ophidiasteridae Verrill, 1870
Oreasteridae Fisher, 1908
Podosphaerasteridae Fujita & Rowe, 2002
Poraniidae Perrier, 1894
Solasteridae Viguier, 1878
Sphaerasteridae Schöndorf, 1906

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Japanese: アカヒトデ目

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.
additional source	Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.
additional source	Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 4: 187-366.
additional source	Blake, D.B. (1980). On the affinites of three small sea-star families. Journal of Natural History 14: 163-182
additional source	Blake, D.B. (1981).A reassessment of the sea-star orders Valvatida and Spinulosida. Journal of Natural History 15: 375-394
additional source	Blake, D. B. (1987). A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History. 21(2): 481-528.
status source	Mah, C.; Foltz, D. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161(4): 769-788.