Asteroidea

Pro subfamilia plantarum florentium, vide "Asteroideae".
Imago asteroideum ex Ernesti Haeckel opere Formis Artis Naturae, ei anno 1904 factis

Subphylum : Asterozoa 
Classis : Asteroidea 
De Blainville, 1830

Asteroidea, vulgo aliquando stellae marinae,[1][2][3] sunt animalia marina subphyli Asterozoorum phyli Echindermatorum.[4]

  1. Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, krefften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar benevens zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde, die in d'Amboinsche en zommige omleggende Eilanden gevonden worden, ed. 2a (Amstelodami: Jan Roman de Jonge, 1741), prima editio, 1705. Vide Plate XV: Stella Marina, Zeesterren (Asteroidea, Starfish, Sea Star species).
  2. "Chapter 34. Of the Stella Marina. Bintang Laut. 1. I translated Rumphius' Latin name as 'Sea Stars,' a locution once just as common as 'Starfish' is now. . . . In Malay it means the same thing: bintang = star, and laut = sea." Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet, liber in Anglicum conversus, editus, adnotatus ab E. M. Beekman (Portu Novi: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 412.
  3. "The first reference Weber could find to the starfish was made by Rumphius in 1705, who referred to it as Stella marina quindecium [sic] radiorum"---Jan Sapp, What Is Natural? Coral Reef Crisis (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 219.
  4. Rich Mooi, "Classification of the Extant Echinodermata." California Academy of Sciences.

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