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Heliaster
Sign in to saveHeliaster is a genus of Asteroidea (sea stars) in the family Heliasteridae.
Species
Genus
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderForcipulatida
- FamilyHeliasteridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 44
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Heliasteridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, SIO, USNM, SBMNH, YPM
- Recorded in
- Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Iles Galapagos
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Heliasteridae
- Image
- Heliaster helianthus.JPG
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- taxon name
- Heliaster
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Heliaster
- start time
- 3000000-00
- taxonomic type
- Heliaster helianthus
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Heliaster is a genus of Asteroidea (sea stars) in the family Heliasteridae.
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |- | ||Heliaster canopus Perrier, 1875||South Pacific Ocean |- | 120px ||Heliaster cumingi (Gray, 1840)||Gulf of California |- | 120px ||Heliaster helianthus (Lamarck, 1816)||southeastern Pacific Ocean |- | 120px ||Heliaster kubiniji Xantus, 1860|| eastern Pacific Ocean |- | 120px ||Heliaster microbrachius Xantus, 1860||east Pacific |- | ||Heliaster polybrachius H.L. Clark, 1907||Gulf of California |- | ||Heliaster solaris A.H. Clark, 1920||Española Island in the Galápagos Islands. |- |}
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