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Myxasteridae
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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderVelatida
- FamilyMyxasteridae
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- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Myxasteridae
- Collections
- NMV, USNM, UM-RSMAS
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States
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Myxasteridae is a family of deep-sea velatid sea stars containing nine species in three genera.
==Taxonomy== List of families according to World Register of Marine Species: genus Asthenactis Fisher, 1906 Asthenactis australis McKnight, 2006 Asthenactis fisheri Alton, 1966 Asthenactis papyraceus Fisher, 1906 genus Heligmaster Mah, 2022 Heligmaster kanaloa Mah, 2022 Heligmaster pele Mah, 2022 genus Myxaster Perrier, 1885 Myxaster medusa (Fisher, 1913) Myxaster perrieri Koehler, 1896 Myxaster sol Perrier, 1885 genus Pythonaster Sladen in Thomson & Murray, 1885 Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948 Pythonaster murrayi Sladen, 1889 Pythonaster pacificus Downey, 1979
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