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Myxasteridae
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Description
MYXASTERIDAE
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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Published as part of 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, pp. 201-260 in Zootaxa 4766 (2) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3764018
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myxasteridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Velatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Taxon rank
- family