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 contorta Perrier, 1881 , Asterias Asterias contorta Perrier, 1881: 1 ; 1884: 199 . Sclerasterias contorta Clark & Downey 1992: 449 . CURRENT STATUS. — Sclerasterias contorta ( Perrier, 1881 ) . TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea1 syntype ; BLAKE expedition; 1878-1879; MNHN-IE-2014-389 1 syntype ; same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-108. REMARKS Perrier (1884) mentions several West Indies localities ( Barbados , St Vincent, Montserrat , Granada , Guadeloupe , Sand-Key, Cariacou). He did not illustrate the species. Nine syntypes are deposited in the MCZ (MCZ 1204-1207, MCZ 1476, MCZ 1478-1481) ( Clark & Downey, 1992 ).