Biology of Incidental Catch Sea Star Stellaster childreni Gray, 1840 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), from Malaysian Borneo Exclusive Economic Zone

Figure 2

Stellaster childreni (Gray, 1840). (a) aboral view, = 66 mm; A: madreporite; B: spine (blunted); C: superomarginal plate; (b) oral view,  mm; D: actinal intermediate areas, with numerous pigmentation lacking suboral spines; E: furrow spines; F: subambulacral spines; G: inferomarginal plate; H: mouth; I: ambulacral groove; J: adambulacral border. = 66/26 mm. “” is the length of the arm as measured from the center of the animal to the tip of the arm. “” is the radius of the disk and is measured from the center to a notch between the arms.

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