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Echinasterid Sea Stars
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Echinasterid Sea Stars

Echinasteridae

The Echinasteridae are a family of sea stars in the order Spinulosida.

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Blood Stars

genusHenricia

Echinaster

genusEchinaster

Plectaster

genusPlectaster

Odontohenricia

genusOdontohenricia

Metrodira

genusMetrodira

Rhopiella

genusRhopiella

Aleutihenricia

genusAleutihenricia

Dictyaster

genusDictyaster

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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 47666.