Circeaster

Circeaster est genus Asteroideorum zonae abyssopelagicae familiae Goniasteridarum.

Descriptio, habitatio, distributio
Discus medius harum stellarum marinarum est planus et latus, quinque bracchiis decrescentibus praeditus. Lamina marginalia sunt crassa et bene delineata. Hae stellae marinae inter 320 et 3000 metra altum habitant, in tribus maximis telluris pelvibus oceanicis.Mah 2006.

Species
World Register of Marine Species novem species perscribit, quae sunt:Mah 2014. 
 Circeaster americanus (A.H. Clark, 1916)
 Circeaster arandae Mah, 2006
 Circeaster helenae Mah, 2006
 Circeaster kristinae Mah, 2006
 Circeaster loisetteae Mah, 2006
 Circeaster magdalenae Koehler, 1909
 Circeaster marcelli Koehler, 1909
 Circeaster pullus Mah, 2006
 Circeaster sandrae Mah, 2006

Circe

Notae

Bibliographia
Mah, C. L. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis and biogeography of the deep-sea goniasterid, Circeaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) including descriptions of six new species. Zoosystema 28(4):2 917–954.
Mah, C. 2014. Circeaster Koehler, 1909. In World Asteroidea database, ed. C. L. Mah. World Register of Marine Species.

Nexus externi

Categoria:Genera animalium
Categoria:Genera animalium ex hominibus mythologicis appellata
Categoria:Goniasteridae
Categoria:Taxa Koehler
Categoria:Taxa 1909