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 modestus Perrier, 1881 , Echinaster Echinaster modestus Perrier, 1881: 7 ; 1884: 206 , pl. 3, fig. 7; Clark 1996: 224 . CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster modestus Perrier, 1881 . TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea1 paralectotype ; St Vincent; BLAKE expedition (1878-1879); depth 225 m ; MNHN-IE-2014-372. REMARK Lectotype and several paralectotypes are deposited in MCZ ( MCZ 1080 [ lectotype ], MCZ 4668 and MCZ 1119 [ paralectotypes ]) ( Clark & Downey 1992 ).