Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combination: Goniaster mulleri

Full reference: C. Heller. 1858. Über neue fossile Stelleriden. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 28(2):155-170

Belongs to Pentagonaster according to M. E. Vadasz 1915

See also Heller 1858, Quenstedt 1876 and von Linstow 1909

Sister taxa: Pentagonaster browni, Goniaster (Astrogonium) stokesii, Goniaster (Astrogonium) marginatus

Type specimen: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pentagonaster muelleri in the database

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