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

Oreasteridae Fisher, 1908

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Culcita Agassiz, 1836

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コブヒトデ科

Literature

original description	Fisher, W.K. (1908). Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous collections (Quaterly). 52: 87-93.
basis of record	Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.).
additional source	Döderlein, L. (1935). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. III. Oreasteridae. Siboga-Expedition, 46(2): 71-110, pls. 15-20.
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	Döderlein, L. (1924). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. II. Pentagonasteridae. Siboga-Expedition. 46(2): 49-69, pls. 14-19.
additional source	Döderlein, L. (1936). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. III. Die unterfamile Oreasterinae. Siboga-Expedition, 46(2): 295-369, pls. 21-32.
identification resource	Döderlein, L. (1935). Die Asteriden der Siboga-Exped. III. Oreasteridae. Siboga-Expedition, 46(2): 71-110, pls. 15-20.
identification resource	Mah, C. L. (2003). Astrosarkus idipi, a new Indo-Pacific genus and species of Oreasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) displaying extreme skeletal reduction. Bulletin of Marine Science 73(3): 685-698