†Petraster smythi McCoy 1874 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae
Full reference: F. McCoy. 1874. Decade I. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria 1-43
Belongs to Petraster according to D. B. Blake et al. 2016
See also McCoy 1874 and Withers and Keble 1934
Sister taxa: Petraster americanus, Petraster angustior, Petraster crozonensis, Petraster kinahani, Petraster richi, Petraster rigidus, Uranaster ramseyensis
Type specimen: Holotype 7604, National Museum, Melbourne
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Petraster smythi in the database
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