Brisingida

Brisingida sunt ordo Asteroideorum quae in mari profundo habitant.

Unum ex Brisingidis

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Animalia — Echinodermata

Subphylum : Eleutherozoa 
Classis : Asteroidea 
Ordo : Brisingida 
Fisher, 1928

   

Subdivisiones: Familiae

Vide commentarium.

Descriptio

His stellis marinis sunt inter 6 et 16 bracchia attenuata, quibus pro victu suspendendi utuntur. Aliae proprietates sunt singula series marginalium, coniunctus laminarum disci anulus, inopia laminarum actinalium, columna ambulacriformis ad laminas abactinales reducta, et transversae pedicellariae.

Distributio geographica

Brisingida in multis oceanorum profundorum regionibus fiunt, praecipue in Mari Caribico et aquis ante Novam Zelandiam.

Brisingidum aurantium super unum ex Antipathariis circa 1950 m in Monte Marino Davidsoniano Californiae repertis.

Taxinomia

Brisingidis sunt duodeviginti genera, in duas familias digesta:

• Familia Brisingidae, G.O. Sars, 1875
  • Genus Astrolirus, Fisher, 1917
  • Genus Astrostephane, Fisher, 1917
  • Genus Brisinga Asbjørnsen, 1856 (synonymum: Craterobrisinga, Fisher, 1916)
  • Genus Brisingaster Loriol, 1883
  • Genus Brisingella Fisher, 1917
  • Genus Brisingenes Fisher, 1917
  • Genus Hymenodiscus Perrier, 1884
  • Genus Labidiaster, Lütken, 1872 (synonymum: Gymnobrisinga, Studer, 1884)
  • Genus Midgardia Downey, 1972
  • Genus Novodinia Dartnall, Pawson, Pope & B.J. Smith, 1969 (synonymum: Odinia, Perrier, 1885)
  • Genus Odinella Fisher, 1940
  • Genus Stegnobrisinga Fisher, 1916

• Familia Freyellidae, Downey, 1986
  • Genus Astrocles Fisher, 1917
  • Genus Belgicella Ludwig, 1903
  • Genus Colpaster Sladen, 1889
  • Genus Freyastera Downey, 1986
  • Genus Freyella Perrier, 1885 (synonymum: Freyellidea, Fisher, 1917)
  • Genus Freyellaster Fisher 1918

Bibliographia

• Clark, A. M., et M. E. Downey. 1992. Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Londinii: Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0-412-43280-3.
• Clark, A. M., et C. Mah. 2001. Forcipulatida and Brisingida. An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4, ed. M. Jangoux et J. M. Lawrence, 229–347. Echinoderm Studies, 6.
• Downey. M. E. 1986. Revision of the Atlantic Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with description of a new genus and family. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 435.
• Fisher, W. K. 1917. New genera and species of Brisingidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(8): 418–31.
• Hansson, H. G. 2001. Echinodermata. In European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification, ed. M. J. Costello, et al., 336–51. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50.
• Sladen, W. P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology 30 (51).

Echinodermata

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