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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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These come in pink, white, orange and now purple! Looks like a ballerina on one foot??
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Scientific name: Poraniella echinulata
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Found in Skookumchuck Rapids, British Columbia, Canada at low tide.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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An orange variant on the white bodied one on the prior photo. Note the respiratory papillae (protrusions) on top
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Scientific name: Poraniella echinulata
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Scientific name: Poraniella echinulata
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Scientific name: Poraniella echinulata
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2005 California Academy of Sciences
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This leather star is hunched over its anemone prey in a characteristic embrace. It is one of the few predators of the anemone, a large part of its diet. The seastar makes every effort to avoid contact with the anemone's potent nematocysts. Depth 27 m.
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This individual, seen in a tidepool at Cape Flattery, has only 4 rays.
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Asteropsis carinifera, oral viewAsteropsis carinifera, collected from Pulo Ba (00 01 45S, 098 31 15E), Greater Sunda Islands, Batu Group, Sumatra, Indian Ocean, by the R. V. Vega.
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Dermasterias imbricata at Beach #4, WA (Photo by: Dave Cowles, July 2005)
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Asteropsis carinifera, aboral viewAsteropsis carinifera, collected from Pulo Ba (00 01 45S, 098 31 15E), Greater Sunda Islands, Batu Group, Sumatra, Indian Ocean, by the R. V. Vega.
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2006 California Academy of Sciences
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The madreporite of the leather sea star.
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2016 California Academy of Sciences
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2012 California Academy of Sciences
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2012 California Academy of Sciences
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2012 California Academy of Sciences
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2005 California Academy of Sciences
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2012 California Academy of Sciences
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Porifera