Nymphaster Sladen, 1889

Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla & Souto, Camilla, 2021, Taxonomy of the sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Bahia State, including ontogenetic variation and an illustrated key to the Brazilian species, Zootaxa 4955 (1), pp. 1-78 : 36

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Genus Nymphaster Sladen, 1889 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Nymphaster arenatus ( Perrier, 1881) View in CoL (type by subsequent designation by Fisher, 1917).

Remarks. The genus Nymphaster includes 16 species and only N. arenatus occurs in the Atlantic Ocean ( Mah, 2020b). Halpern (1970b) identified two species from the Atlantic Ocean, but Clark & Downey (1992) synonymized N. subspinosus ( Perrier, 1881) with N. arenatus .