Asterina phylactica

Taxobox
name = "Parvulastra exigua"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Echinodermata
subphylum = Eleutherozoa
classis = Asteroidea
ordo = Valvatida
subordo = Leptognathina
familia = Asterinidae
genus = "Asterina" [ [http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=40885 Parvulastra phylactica] , The Taxonomicon, accessed 31 August 2008]
species = "Asterina phylactica"
species_authority = (Emson and Crump, 1979)

"Asterina phylactica" is a species of sea star. It can be found in geographically widespread sites around the British Isles and in the Medieterranean and Australia. It has five arms, is about 1.5 cm across and is of green colour. [ [http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=ZB1140 Asterina phylactica] , habitas.org.uk, accessed 31 August 2008] The species was formally identified in 1979 and is very similar to Asterina gibbosa.

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