Taxonavigation

Familia: Astrophiuridae
Genus: Astrophiura
Species (10): A. caroleae – A. chariplax – A. kawamurai – A. kohurangi – A. levii – A. marionae – † A. markbeneckei – A. permira – A. tiki – A. wanikawa

Name

Astrophiura Sladen, 1879

• Note: a preliminary notice was published in 1878 but according to H.L. Clark (1923: 354) it was not sufficiant to establish the species and genus.
• Type species: Astrophiura permira Sladen, 1879, by monotypy.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1923. The Echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum. 13(7): 221-435, pls VIII-XXIII. BHL Reference page. 
• Litvinova, N.M. & Smirnov, I.S. 1981. A contribution to studying the genus Astrophiura (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 60: 626–629.Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Stöhr, S., Hugall, A.F., Thuy, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416: 1–35. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416 Reference page.  [as Astrophiura p. 9]
• Pawson, D.L. 2018. A new species of the remarkable brittle star genus Astrophiura (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the western Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4378(2): 257–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1878. On Astrophiura permira, an Echinoderm-Form Intermediate between Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 27(185–189): 456–457. DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1878.0083 BHL Reference page. 
• Sladen, P. 1879. On the structure of Astrophiura, a new and aberrant genus of Echinodermata. Ann.Mag.nat.Hist. ser. 5. 4: 401-415. BHL Reference page. 
• Thuy, B., Gale, A.S., Numberger-Thuy, L.D. 2019. Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution. PeerJ. 7:e8008. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8008 Reference page.