Myxasteridae

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Kingdom Animalia Class Asteroidea Rank Family		Subphylum Eleutherozoa Phylum Echinodermata Order Velatida

Similar Velatida, Pythonaster, Porcellanasteridae, Brisingidae, Freyellidae

Myxasteridae is a family of deep-sea velatid sea stars containing nine species in three genera.

Taxonomy

List of families according to World Register of Marine Species:

genus Asthenactis Fisher, 1906

Asthenactis australis McKnight, 2006

Asthenactis fisheri Alton, 1966

Asthenactis papyraceus Fisher, 1906

genus Myxaster Perrier, 1885

Myxaster medusa (Fisher, 1913)

Myxaster perrieri Koehler, 1896

Myxaster sol Perrier, 1885

genus Pythonaster Sladen in Thomson & Murray, 1885

Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948

Pythonaster murrayi Sladen, 1889

Pythonaster pacificus Downey, 1979

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