Oreasteridae
{{Short description|Family of starfishes}}
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| image = Choriaster granulatus.jpg
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| taxon = Oreasteridae
| authority = Fisher, 1911 {{ cite web |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149871 |author=C.L. Mah |title=Asteroidea taxon details for Oreasteridae |year=2010 |work=World Asteroidea Database |access-date=June 29, 2011}}
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
}}
The Oreasteridae are a family of sea stars in the class Asteroidea.
Description and characteristics
This family contains many species of regular starfishes with usually 5 arms around a stiff, convex and often brightly colored body. Whereas some species are very easy to identify, like the "pincushion seastars" (Culcita sp.), some other can be difficult to tell apart.{{cite web |url=http://echinoblog.blogspot.fr/2012/01/how-to-tell-apart-knobby-stars.html |title=How to tell apart the "knobby stars" Protoreaster from Pentaceraster |last1=Mah |first1=Christopher L. |date=24 January 2012 |website=The Echinoblog }}
Selected genera
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- genus Acheronaster H.E.S. Clark, 1982 -- 1 species
- genus Anthaster Döderlein, 1915 -- 1 species
- genus Anthenea Gray, 1840 -- 22 species
- genus Astrosarkus Mah, 2003 -- 1 species
- genus Bothriaster Döderlein, 1916 -- 1 speciesProbably just the juvenile form of Choriaster.
- genus Choriaster Lutken, 1869 -- 1 species
- genus Culcita Agassiz, 1836 -- 3 species
- genus Goniodiscaster H.L. Clark, 1909 -- 14 species
- genus Gymnanthenea H.L. Clark, 1938 -- 2 species
- genus Halityle Fisher, 1913 -- 1 species
- genus Monachaster Döderlein, 1916 -- 1 species
- genus Nectriaster H.L. Clark, 1946 -- 1 species
- genus Nidorellia Gray, 1840 -- 1 species
- genus Oreaster Müller & Troschel, 1842 -- 2 species
- genus Pentaceraster Döderlein, 1916 -- 14 species
- genus Pentaster Döderlein, 1935 -- 2 species
- genus Poraster Döderlein, 1916 -- 1 species
- genus Protoreaster Döderlein, 1916 -- 3 species
- genus Pseudanthenea Döderlein, 1915 -- 1 species
- genus Pseudoreaster Verrill, 1899 -- 1 species
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Image:Anthaster valvulatus P1192613.JPG|Anthaster valvulatus
Image:Cake sea star (Anthenea aspera) 2.jpg|Anthenea aspera
Image:Astrosarkus idipi.jpg|Astrosarkus idipi (dried, MNHN)
Image:Oreasteridae - Choriaster granulatus.jpg|Choriaster granulatus
Image:CulcitanovguineaeJI1.jpg|Culcita novaeguineae
Image:Biscuit sea star (Goniodiscaster scaber) 3.jpg|Goniodiscaster scabra
Image:Spiny sea star (Gymnanthenea laevis).jpg|Gymnanthenea laevis
Image:Halityle regularis.jpg|Halityle regularis
Image:Monachaster sanderi.jpg|Monachaster sanderi
Image:BIOL. RESULTS ENDEAVOUR, Vol. IV, part I. Plate X Nectriaster monacanthus.jpg|Nectriaster monacanthus
Image:Chocolate Chip Starfish.jpg|Nidorellia armata
Image:Oreaster reticulatus (reticulated starfish) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2.jpg|Oreaster reticulatus
Image:Star Attraction.jpg|Pentaceraster cumingi
Image:Pentaster obtusatus.jpg|Pentaster obtusatus
Image:Protoreaster nodosus.jpg|Protoreaster nodosus
Image:Plate 6 (Clark, 1938).jpg|Pseudoreaster obtusangulus
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://echinoblog.blogspot.fr/2012/01/how-to-tell-apart-knobby-stars.html |title=How to tell apart the "knobby stars" Protoreaster from Pentaceraster |last1=Mah |first1=Christopher L. |date=24 January 2012 |website=The Echinoblog }}.
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