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Benthopectinidae

Index Benthopectinidae

Benthopectinidae is a family of sea stars containing at least 75 species in eight genera. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 5 relations: Acontiaster, Family (biology), Monotypic taxon, Species, Starfish.

  2. Notomyotida

Acontiaster

Acontiaster is a genus of starfish in the family Benthopectinidae, containing the single species Acontiaster bandanus. Benthopectinidae and Acontiaster are Notomyotida.

See Benthopectinidae and Acontiaster

Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

See Benthopectinidae and Family (biology)

Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

See Benthopectinidae and Monotypic taxon

Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

See Benthopectinidae and Species

Starfish

Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.

See Benthopectinidae and Starfish

See also

Notomyotida

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthopectinidae

Also known as Notomyotida.