Uranaster ramseyensis Hicks 1873 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae

Alternative combinations: Palasterina ramseyensis, Petraster ramseyensis

Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52

Belongs to Uranaster according to W. K. Spencer 1918

See also Blake et al. 2016, Hicks 1873, Owen 1965 and Schuchert 1915

Sister taxa: Petraster americanus, Petraster angustior, Petraster crozonensis, Petraster kinahani, Petraster richi, Petraster rigidus, Petraster smythi

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Uranaster ramseyensis in the database

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