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 * decanus Müller & Troschel, 1843, Echinaster Echinaster decanus Müller & Troschel, 1843 : 114 . Plectaster decanus Clark 1996: 244 . — Jangoux 2021: 225 . CURRENT STATUS. — Echinaster decanus Müller & Troschel, 1843 . REMARK Original drawings of A. decanus are presented in Jangoux (2021: 227 , fig. 12). The species is distributed throughout the south coast of Australia up to Newcastel, and in Tasmania .