Family Mithrodiidae Viguier 1878 (sea star)
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Mithrodiidae
Full reference: C. Viguier. 1878. Classification des Stellérides. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 84:681-683
Parent taxon: Valvatida according to D. B. Blake 1989
See also Mah and Blake 2012, Perrier 1893 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Acanthasteridae, Archasteridae, Asteriaceros, Asterinidae, Asterodiscididae, Asteropseidae, Chaetasteridae, Ganeriidae, Geinitzaster, Goniasteridae, Goniasteroidea, Granulosina, Leptaster, Odontasteridae, Ophidiasteridae, Oreasteridae, Poraniidae, Pycinasteridae, Sphaerasteridae, Stauranderasteridae, Tumulosina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mithrodiidae in the database