Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Order Velatida > Family Myxasteridae

Myxaster Perrier, 1885

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Myxaster perrieri Koehler, 1895
Myxaster sol Perrier, 1885

Literature

original description	Perrier, E. (1885). Sur les stellérides recueillis durant la mission du Talisman. Comptes-rendus Hébdomadaires des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris). 101: 884-887.
basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
additional source	Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.
additional source	Dilman, A.B. (2005). Starfishes of the genus Myxaster (Echinodermata, asteroidea). Zoologieskij Zurnal 84(4):455-463 (in Russian)

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Myxaster Perrier, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123329