Tethyaster
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderPaxillosida
- FamilyAstropectinidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 57
- Family
- Astropectinidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, MNHN, TCWC
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Philippines, Nouvelle-Caledonie
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Astropectinidae
- Image
- Tethyaster grandis.jpg
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- Tethyaster
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Tethyaster is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Astropectinidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tethyaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.