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 text Zoosystema 2022 2022-06-03 44 11 259 334 journal article 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11 83dc5b45-5596-4a84-ab44-8b2f4d777110 1638-9387 6616817 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851 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 .