Myxasteridae

MYXASTERIDAE The Myxasteridae is a family of exclusively abyssal velatid asteroids which includes three taxa, two multi-armed genera Asthenactis and Myxaster and the five-armed Pythonaster , which are known from deep-sea settings in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Recent overviews of this rarely encou...

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Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2020
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Velatida
Myxasteridae
Pacific
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803699
https://zenodo.org/record/3803699
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Summary:MYXASTERIDAE The Myxasteridae is a family of exclusively abyssal velatid asteroids which includes three taxa, two multi-armed genera Asthenactis and Myxaster and the five-armed Pythonaster , which are known from deep-sea settings in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Recent overviews of this rarely encountered family of asteroids are found in Mah et al . (2012) and Alton (1966). : Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, pp. 201-260 in Zootaxa 4766 (2) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3764018

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