Pythonaster

Pythonaster is a genus of deep-sea velatid sea stars containing three species.

Pythonaster
Pythonaster sp. (probably P. atlantidis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Subphylum:
Eleutherozoa
Class:
Asteroidea
Order:
Velatida
Family:
Myxasteridae
Genus:
Pythonaster

Sladen in Thomson & Murray, 1885

Taxonomy

List of species according to World Register of Marine Species:[1]

  • Pythonaster atlantidis A.H. Clark, 1948
  • Pythonaster murrayi Sladen, 1889
  • Pythonaster pacificus Downey, 1979
Pythonaster sp. observed off Hawaii.
gollark: How much competition is there for that?
gollark: The other one kept producing `CthulhuRlyehWgahnaglFhtagnException`s, apparently.
gollark: *That* one was considered an anomaly and contained last year.
gollark: So actually no.
gollark: Although I don't think I specified that it was a uniform distribution.

References
  1. "The World Asteroidea Database - Pythonaster". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2014-02-28.


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