Callopatiria
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| Callopatiria granifera | |
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| Genus: | Callopatiria Verrill, 1913
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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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