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Marthasterias glacialis is a fairly large starfish with a small central disc and five slender, tapering arms. Each arm has three longitudinal rows of conical, whitish spines, usually with purple tips, each surrounded by a wreath of pedicellariae.
Coscinasterias tenuispina is a starfish in the family Asteriidae. It is sometimes called the blue spiny starfish or the white starfish . It occurs in shallow waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Culcita schmideliana, commonly known as the spiny cushion star, is a species of pin-cushion star. It has a variety of base colors and often patches of a different color. It is pentagonal in shape and lives in the tropical Indo-Pacific. This species is rarely kept by hobby aquarists.
This order of starfish consists mostly of deep-sea and other cold-water starfish often with a global distribution. The shape is pentagonal or star-shaped with five to fifteen arms. They mostly have poorly developed skeletons with papulae widely distributed on the aboral surface and often spiny pedicellariae. [ 117 ]
Pisaster brevispinus, commonly called the pink sea star, giant pink sea star, or short-spined sea star, is a species of sea star in the northeast Pacific Ocean.It was first described to science by William Stimson in 1857. [1]
Astropecten armatus, the spiny sand star or Estrella de Arena, is a sea star in the family Astropectinidae. It is found on sandy or gravelly areas in the East Pacific ranging from California (USA) to Ecuador .
Luidia quinaria von Martens, 1865 – spiny sand sea star; Luidia sagamina Doderlein, 1920; Luidia sarsii Düben & Koren, 1845; Luidia savignyi (Audouin, 1826) Luidia senegalensis (Lamark, 1816) – nine-armed sea star; Luidia sibogae Doderlein, 1920; Luidia superba A.H. Clark, 1917 – giant sea star; Luidia tessellata Lutken, 1859; Luidia ...
Coscinasterias tenuispina (Lamarck 1816) – Blue spiny starfish: Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea The following are synonyms of other species: