Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Superclassis: Asterozoa
Classis: Asteroidea
Ordo: Spinulosida
Subordo: Leptognathina
Familia: Asterinidae
Genus: Callopatiria
Species: C. cabrinovici
Name
Callopatiria Verrill, 1913
Type species: Patiria bellula Sladen, 1889 by original designation. (= Patiria granifera Gray, 1847).
References
O'Loughlin, P.M. 2009: New asterinid species from Africa and Australia (Echinodermata: Asteroidea:Asterinidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 66 (2): 203–213. Full article: [1].
O’Loughlin, P.M.; Waters, J.M. 2004: A molecular and morphological revision of genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 61: 1–40. [2]
Callopatiria is a genus of starfish of the family Asterinidae.[1]
Characteristics
Members of the genus Callopatiria have five long, narrow rays, rounded on the upper surface and tapering to a rounded tip. The body is flat on the oral (under) surface but convex on the aboral (upper) surface. The plates on the rays are irregular and are covered by numerous glassy spinelets, finger-like on the primary plates and narrowly conical on the secondary plates. No pedicellariae are present and the papular spaces are large with numerous papulae.[2]
Species
Callopatiria cabrinovici O'Loughlin, 2009
Callopatiria formosa (Mortensen, 1933)
Callopatiria granifera (Gray, 1847)
References
http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177965 accessed 18 July 2012
O'Loughlin, P. M.; Waters, J. M. (2004). "A molecular and morphological revision of genera of Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 61 (1): 1–40.
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