Callopatiria

Callopatiria
	Callopatiria granifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Valvatida
Family:	Asterinidae
Genus:	Callopatiria; Verrill, 1913
Species
	See text.

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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[1] ttp://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=177965 accessed 18 July 2012

[2] 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.