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 71620 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11 83dc5b45-5596-4a84-ab44-8b2f4d777110 1638-9387 6616817 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851 clouei Perrier, 1869 , Oreaster Oreaster clouei Perrier, 1869: 79 . Protoreaster lincki : Blainville, 1830: 219 , n. syn. CURRENT STATUS. — Protoreaster lincki Blainville, 1830 . TYPE MATERIAL. — Madagascar holotype ; Diego Suarez ; Captain Cloué leg.; 1847; MNHN-IE-2014-476 . REMARK Perrier’s type specimen shares all the characteristics of the common west Indian Ocean species Protoreaster lincki having laterally projecting red tipped spines on some of the distal supero-marginal plates.