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First Record of the Family Myxasteridae (Asteroidea: Velatida) from Western North Pacific with Description of a New Species of Asthenactis

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  • 1. Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan & Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan E-mail: i_kobayashi@kahaku.go.jp & Corresponding author
  • 2. Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan & Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan E-mail: i_kobayashi@kahaku.go.jp
  • 3. Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan

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Kobayashi, Itaru, Yamamoto, Masaki, Fujiwara, Yoshihiro, Tsuchida, Shinji, Fujita, Toshihiko (2022): First Record of the Family Myxasteridae (Asteroidea: Velatida) from Western North Pacific with Description of a New Species of Asthenactis. Species Diversity 27 (2): 251-258, DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.27.251, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.27.251

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