Asterias propinqua Münster 1835 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae

Alternative combination: Astropecten propinquus

Full reference: G. Münster. 1835. Bemerkungen über einige tertiäre Meerwasser-Gebilde im nordwestlichen Deutschland, zwischen Osnabrück und Cassel. Neus Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 420-451

Belongs to Asterias according to O. von Linstow 1909

See also Dewalque 1880, Dujardin and Hupé 1862, Forbes 1848, Hess 1955, Münster 1835 and Philippi 1843

Sister taxa: Asterias (Archaeasterias), Asterias arenicola, Asterias bituminosa, Asterias deslongchampsi, Asterias dubium, Asterias lincki, Asterias planci, Asterias punctulata, Asterias ranvillensis, Asterias remondii, Asterias rubens, Asterias stellionura, Asteracanthion oolithicum

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Asterias propinqua in the database

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