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 calcar var. hexagona Lamarck, 1816 , Asterias Asterias calcar var. hexagona Lamarck, 1816: 557 . — Jangoux 2021: 216 . Meridastra gunni ‒ O’Loughlin & Waters 2004: 3 . CURRENT STATUS. — Meridiastra gunni (Gray, 1840) . TYPE MATERIAL. — Australia • holotype ; King George Sound ( Albany ); Baudin expedition; 1800-1804; Péron & Lesueur leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-458 . REMARKS Photographs and drawings of A. calcar var. hexagona holotype are presented in Jangoux (2021: 220 , fig. 5). A. calcar var. hexagona holotype was not recognized by Müller & Troschel (1842: 43) who described it as one of the type specimens of a new species ( Asteriscus australis ).