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 cuspidata Lamarck, 1816 , Asterias Asterias cuspidata Lamarck, 1816: 553 . Mediaster cuspidatus ‒ Jangoux 2021: 225 . CURRENT STATUS. — Mediaster cuspidatus (Lamarck, 1916) . TYPE MATERIAL. — South Seas • holotype ; Baudin expedition; 1800- 1804; Péron & Lesueur leg.; MNHN-IE-2014-3 . REMARK Photograph and original drawings of A. cuspidata holotype are presented in Jangoux (2021: 224 , fig. 10).