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 gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842 , Echinaster Echinaster gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842: 25 . Othilia purpureus Gray, 1840: 282 , n. syn. CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840) . TYPE MATERIAL. — Unknown origin1 syntype ;MNHN-IE-2017-1424. REMARK E. gracilis inhabits Indian Seas according to Dujardin & Hupé (1862) . The species shares all the characteristics of the common Indian Ocean species Echinaster purpureus , having a reticulated skeleton and abactinal plates arranged in longitudinal series.