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

Myxasteridae Perrier, 1885

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Myxaster Perrier, 1885
Pythonaster Sladen in Thomson & Murray, 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	Clark, A. M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 5: 183-250.
additional source	Clark, A. M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida. In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies. 5: 183-250.
additional source	Fisher, W.K. (1906). The starfishes of the Hawaiian islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23: 987-1130.
additional source	Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 30 (part 51): xlii + 893 pages, 118 plates.
additional source	Alton, M.S. (1966).A new sea-star from the northeastern Pacific Ocean, Asthenactis fisheri n. sp., with a review of the family Myxasteridae.Deep-Sea Research 13: 687-697
additional source	McKnight, D. G. (2006). The marine fauna of New Zealand, Echinodermata: Asteroidea (Sea-stars). 3. Orders Velatida, Spinulosida, Forcipulatida, Brisingida with addenda to Paxillosida, Valvatida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 120: 1-187.
identification resource	Downey, M. E. (1979). Pythonaster pacificus n. sp., a new starfish of the family Myxasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 92: 70-74.
identification resource	Mah, CL.; Mercier, A.; Hamel, J.-P.; Nizinski, M. (2012). Distribution Data and Taxonomic Notes on Atlantic Myxasteridae. Zootaxa. 3572: 55-62.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Myxasteridae 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:123141