Stelleroidea
{{Short description|Class of marine invertebrates}}
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| image = Ochre sea star on beach, Olympic National Park USA.jpg
| image_caption = Ochre sea star on beach
at Olympic National Park
| taxon = Stelleroidea
| authority = Lamarck, 1816 [nom. transl. et correct. Gregory, 1900 (pro les Stellerides Lamarck, 1816)]{{harvnb|Spencer|Wright|1966|page=U39}}
| subdivision_ranks = Classes
| subdivision =
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Stelleroidea is a junior synonym of Asterozoa.{{cite web|title=Asterozoa |website=The Paleobiology Database |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:102323 |accessdate=November 5, 2024}}
History
In 1900, Stelleroidea was included as a class in F. A. Bather's echinoderm taxonomy, which grouped Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea within it as subclasses due to their Paleozoic history.{{harvnb|Bather|1900|pages=33–34}} In 1966, the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology included Stelleroidea as the only class within the subphylum Asterozoa, with Somasteroidea, Asteroidea, and Ophiuroidea as subclasses.{{harvnb|Spencer|Wright|1966|pages=U35–U39}} By a 1980 revision of the Treatise's taxonomy, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea had been promoted to classes in place of Stelleroidea.{{harvnb|Sprinkle|1980|page=26}}
References
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=Works cited=
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- {{cite book|last1=Bather |first1=F. A. |chapter=Chapter VIII: General Description of the Echinoderma |editor-last1=Lankester |editor-first1=E. Ray |title=A Treatise on Zoology, Part III: The Echinoderma |location=London |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |year=1900 |pages=1–37 |doi=10.1080/00222930008678384}}
- {{cite book|last1=Spencer |first1=W. K. |last2=Wright |first2=C. W. |chapter=Asterozoans |editor-last1=Moore |editor-last2=Raymond C. |title=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U: Echinodermata 3 |volume=1 |pages=U5–U107 |publisher=University of Kansas Press |date=1966 |url=https://journals.ku.edu/InvertebratePaleo/issue/view/521 |accessdate=28 October 2024}}
- {{cite journal|last=Sprinkle |first=J. |title=An Overview of the Fossil Record |journal=Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology |volume=3 |pages=15–26 |year=1980 |doi=10.1017/S0271164800000063}}
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Category:Superclasses (biology)
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