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 tenuis Koehler, 1905 , Odontaster Odontaster tenuis Koehler, 1905: 468 ; 1906: 8 , pl. 4, figs 33-38. Odontaster validus ‒ Clark 1993: 198 . CURRENT STATUS. — Odontaster validus Koehler, 1905 . TYPE MATERIAL. — Antarctic • 1 syntype ; Howgard Island ; French Antarctic expedition; 1903-1905; MNHN-IE-2014-203 • 4 syntypes ; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-335 • 1 syntype ; unspecified locality; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-211 • 5 syntypes ; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-236 • 1 syntype ; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-445. REMARK Koehler (1906) mentions nine specimens :five were collected in Howgard Island waters, the origin of the others is unspecified.