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Myxaster
Sign in to saveMyxaster is a genus of deep-sea velatid sea stars containing three species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderVelatida
- FamilyMyxasteridae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Myxasteridae
- Collections
- CAS, NMV, MNHN, ALMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Atlantique, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Myxasteridae
- Image
- Myxaster.jpg
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- Myxaster
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- Myxaster
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Myxaster is a genus of deep-sea velatid sea stars containing three species.
==Taxonomy== List of species according to World Register of Marine Species: Myxaster medusa (Fisher, 1913) Myxaster perrieri Koehler, 1896 Myxaster sol Perrier, 1885
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myxaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.