Valettaster granulatus Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae

Full reference: K. Brünnich-Nielsen. 1943. The Asteroids of the Senonian and Danian deposits of Danmark. Biologiske skrifter fra det Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 2(5):1-68

Belongs to Valettaster according to A.S. Gale 2021

See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943, Rasmussen 1950 and Rasmussen 1979

Sister taxa: Valettaster argus, Valettaster dangeardi, Valettaster digitatus, Valettaster ocellatus, Valettaster planus, Valettaster stipes, Valettaster thuyi

Type specimen: Gological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Valettaster granulatus in the database

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