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Asterias rubens

Asteroidea - Asteriidae

Taxonomy
Asterias rubens was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Asterias.

It was recombined as Uraster rubens by Forbes (1852).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data