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
10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11
83dc5b45-5596-4a84-ab44-8b2f4d777110
1638-9387
6616817
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851
muelleri
nomen dubium,
Scytaster
TYPE MATERIAL. —
West Indies
•
3 syntypes
;
Virgin Islands
, Saint Thomas;
Michelin
leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-469
.
REMARKS
The
three specimens
from
St Thomas
(
Virgin Islands
) of the MNHN collection are considered type specimens of
Scytaster muelleri
, a species presumably described by
Duchassaing (1850)
. Yet neither this publication nor any other Duchassaing’s publications include the description of a
S. muelleri
species which, consequently, should be considered a long-lasting
nomen dubium
.
The MNHN
syntypes
of
Scytaster muelleri
belong to the species
Ophidiaster guildingi
.