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

Bathybiaster vexillifer (Wyville Thomson, 1873)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bathybiaster*	Danielssen & Koren, 1883	accepted genus name
*Ilyaster*	Danielssen & Koren, 1883	synonym
*Phoxaster*	Sladen, 1889	synonym

Species group names

*Archaster robustus*	Verrill, 1884	synonym
*Archaster vexillifer*	Wyville Thomson, 1873	synonym
*Astropecten pallidus*	Danielssen & Koren, 1877	synonym
*Astropecten vexillifer*	(Wyville Thomson, 1873)	synonym
*Bathybiaster robustus*	(Verrill, 1894)	synonym
*Ilyaster mirabilis*	Danielssen & Koren, 1883	synonym
*Phoxaster pumilus*	Sladen, 1889	synonym

Literature

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	Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.).

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Bathybiaster vexillifer (Wyville Thomson, 1873). 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:123881