Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae

Alternative combination: Bohemura groomi

Full reference: W. K. Spencer and T. Groom. 1934. Starfish from the Welsh borderland. Geological Magazine 71:231-236

Belongs to Protaster according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005

See also Owen 1965, Spencer 1934, Spencer and Groom 1934 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Protaster bicatenulata, Protaster piltonensis, Protaster salteri, Protaster sedgwickii, Protaster stellifer, Protaster ubaghsi, Bohemura granifer, Bohemura jahni, Urosoma hirudo

Type specimen: Holotype SM A14992

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protaster groomi in the database

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