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Benthopectinidae
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Benthopectinidae

The Notomyotida are an order of sea stars containing at least 75 species in eight genera of the monotypic family, Benthopectinidae.

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Cheiraster

genusCheiraster

Nearchaster

genusNearchaster

Benthopecten

genusBenthopecten

Pontaster

genusPontaster

Pectinaster

genusPectinaster

Acontiaster

genusAcontiaster

Gaussaster

genusGaussaster

Myonotus

genusMyonotus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 195879.