Zool. [ad. F. stelléride (Lamarck) app. irreg. f. L. stella star. (See -ID3.)] A star-fish. Also Stelleridan [see -IDAN], † Stelliridean, -ian.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. vi. 201. Lamarck … has divided it [the order of Echinoderms] into three sections, the Stelleridans, Echinidans, and Fistulidans.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min. (1869), I. 348. No fossil Stelleridans have yet been noticed in strata more ancient than the Muschelkalk.
1837. Penny Cycl., IX. 262/2. Lamarck made his Radiaires Echinodermes consist of three sections. 1st, the Stellirideans (star-fishes). Ibid. (1842), XXIII. 17/2. Agassiz also divides the Stelliridians into three families.
1882. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., VI. 271. The bases of the lateral tentacular branches which they give off open into large ambulacral vesicles, just as in the Stellerids.
1896. Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., XXXVIII. 389, note. A paper on the ‘Organogeny of Stellerids.’
