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Crossaster
Sign in to saveCrossaster is a genus of sea stars in the family Solasteridae.
Species
Rose Sun Star
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderValvatida
- FamilySolasteridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 40
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Solasteridae
- Collections
- NMV, AM, UAM, CMN, UF, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, Japan, Australia, Canada, Timor-Leste, South Africa, United Kingdom, Russian Federation
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Crossaster is a genus of sea stars in the family Solasteridae.
==Species== The following species are listed in the World Register of Marine Species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | ||Crossaster borealis Fisher, 1906||Pacific Coast of North America |- | ||Crossaster campbellicus McKnight, 1973|| |- | ||Crossaster diamesus (Djakonov, 1932)|| |- | ||Crossaster helianthus Verrill, 1894|| |- | ||Crossaster japonicus (Fisher, 1911)||Okhotuk Sea, Japan Sea and North Pacific coast of Honsyu, Japan |- | ||Crossaster multispinus H.L. Clark, 1916|| |- |120px||Crossaster papposus (Linnaeus, 1767)||Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. |- | ||Crossaster penicillatus Sladen, 1889|| |- | ||Crossaster scotophilus (Fisher, 1913)|| |- |120px||Crossaster squamatus (Döderlein, 1900)||Arctic Ocean |- |} ==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crossaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.