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An order of sea stars and members of the class Asteroidea. The name is derived from the club-shaped plates, or paxillae, that form the sea star's...


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Paxillosida. (a) Complete astropecten, a typical paxillosid (after R. Koehler, Echinodermes: Resultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, Imprimerie de Monaco, 1909). (b) Arm arrangement, enlarged to show paxillae; (c) paxilla in side view and (d) top view (after W. K. Fisher, Starfishes of the Philippine Seas and Adjacent Waters, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 110, vol.3, 1919).
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