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

Astropectinidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Plutonasteridae*	Sladen, 1899	synonym

Children

Astropecten Gray, 1840
Bathybiaster Danielssen & Koren, 1883
Dytaster Sladen, 1889
Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876
Lonchotaster Sladen, 1889
Persephonaster Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Plutonaster Sladen, 1889
Psilaster Sladen, 1885
Tethyaster Sladen, 1889

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: モミジガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: kamsjöstjärnor

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1840). XXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6: 175-184.
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.
identification resource	Doderlein, L. (1917). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition. 1. Die Gattung Astropecten und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga-Expedition. 46a: 1-190.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Astropectinidae Gray, 1840. 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:123127

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Environment

marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

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2008-01-19 by Christopher Mah

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