PAXILLOSIDA, Perrier, 1884

Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, Zootaxa 4766 (2), pp. 201-260 : 210

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B47DC09C-181A-4DFE-B415-770AFFC11BD3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803749
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE8786-FFB4-D549-FF40-2589FB75584E
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	PAXILLOSIDA
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PAXILLOSIDA View in CoL

Members of the Paxillosida are associated with burial in unconsolidated sediment and most families possess pointed tube feet and a number of other morphological adaptations for digging and living in mud or sand. Phylogenetic molecular revision by Mah and Foltz (2011b) has added families, such as the Pseudarchasteridae and the Benthopectinidae with unpointed tube feet to the Paxillosida suggesting a broader morphological range.