MYXASTERIDAE

Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, Zootaxa 4766 (2), pp. 201-260 : 243

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B47DC09C-181A-4DFE-B415-770AFFC11BD3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803700

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE8786-FF97-D56A-FF40-2702FE6E5BCC

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Carolina

scientific name

MYXASTERIDAE
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The Myxasteridae is a family of exclusively abyssal velatid asteroids which includes three taxa, two multi-armed genera Asthenactis and Myxaster and the five-armed Pythonaster , which are known from deep-sea settings in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Recent overviews of this rarely encountered family of asteroids are found in Mah et al. (2012) and Alton (1966).

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