Order Paxillosida Perrier 1884 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Paxillosida

Full reference: E. Perrier. 1884. Mémoire sur les étoiles de mer recueillies dans la mer des Antilles et le Golf du Mexique. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 6(2):127-276

Parent taxon: Valvatacea according to L. Villier et al. 2007

See also Blake 1989, Blake 2018, Blake and Sturgeon 1995, Donovan et al. 2005, Fernández et al. 2014, Gale 2011, Mah and Blake 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Carniaster, Notomyotida, Valvatida

Subtaxa: Astropectinidae Benthopectinidae Cribellina Ctenodiscidae Diplozonina Luidiidae Notomyotina

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

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