Patiriella parvivipara

Patiriella parvivipara

Taxobox
name = "Patiriella parvivipara"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Echinodermata
subphylum = Eleutherozoa
classis = Asteroidea
ordo = Spinulosida
subordo = Leptognathina
familia = Asterinidae
genus = "Patiriella"
species = "Patiriella parvivipara"
species_authority = Dartnall, 1972

"Patiriella parvivipara" is an Australian species of sea star.

It is of very small size (measuring up to 1 cm) and yellow-orange colour. It is self-ferilising hermaphrodite and incubates its young in the gonads [Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol 1, Gale Cengage 2003 p.378] .

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