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Odontasteridae
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Odontasteridae

Odontasteridae is a family of sea stars. Members of the family are known as cushion stars and have relatively broad discs and five short tapering arms.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Odontaster

genusOdontaster

Diplodontias

genusDiplodontias

Eurygonias

genusEurygonias

Acodontaster

genusAcodontaster

Diabocilla

genusDiabocilla

Hoplaster

genusHoplaster

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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 245329.