Asterias deslongchampsi Morière 1878 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae

Full reference: M. J. Morière. 1878. Note sur une astéride dans l'Oxfordien des Vaches-Noires, entre Dives et Villers-sur-Mer. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 3(2):75-82

Belongs to Asterias according to J. Mercier 1935

See also Morière 1878

Sister taxa: Asterias (Archaeasterias), Asterias arenicola, Asterias bituminosa, Asterias dubium, Asterias gaveyi, Asterias lincki, Asterias planci, Asterias propinqua, 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 deslongchampsi in the database

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