The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris
Author
Jangoux, Michel
Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be
jangoux@telenet.be
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Zoosystema
2022
2022-06-03
44
11
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334
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11
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1638-9387
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obtusata
Bory de Saint Vincent, 1827
,
Asterias
(
Fig. 22
)
Asterias obtusata
Bory
de Saint Vincent, 1824
.
Pentaster obtusatus
‒
Clark 1993: 317
.
CURRENT STATUS. —
Pentaster obtusatus
(Bory de
Saint Vincent
, 1824).
T YPE MATERIAL. — Unknown origin •
3
syntypes
;
MNHN- IE-2013-4352
.
REMARKS Bory’s species is based on a drawing of an unidentified
Asterias
(
Bruguière 1791
, pl. 103).
P. obtusata
occurs in the Indo-Malayan region and the
Philippines
.