NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN AND PACIFIC ASTERINIDAE (ECHINODERMATA, ASTEROIDEA)

O’Loughlin, P.M., 2002. New genus and species of southern Australian and Pacific Asterinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(2): 277–296. The diagnostic characters of the Asterinidae species Asterina atyphoida H.L. Clark from southern Australia and Asterina gibbosa (Pennant) from the Atlantic, type species of Asterina Nardo, are reviewed. Asterina atyphoida is referred to Meridiastra gen. nov., with four othe