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Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Suborder Asteriadina
Family Asteriidae
Genus Evasterias
Species troschellii
Common Name: Mottled Star)
evasterias troschellii
A mottled star arm profile.

We are waiting for the whole picture!!

image by Ryan Murphy
Recently Russian Scientists researching two other members of the genus, Evasterias , discovered of new steroid compounds.

Steroid compounds from two Pacific starfish of the genus Evasterias
E. V. Levina, A. I. Kalinovsky and P. V. Dmitrenok
This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students, faculty, staff and volunteers of
Lester B. Pearson College
Jan 2011
Ryan Murphy
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