Parvulastra vivipara

Tasmanian Live-bearing Seastar
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Asterozoa
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Valvatida
Family: Asterinidae
Genus: Parvulastra
Species: P. vivipara
Binomial name
Parvulastra vivipara

The Tasmanian Live-bearing Seastar is a tiny, uniformly orange-yellow seastar, up to 15 mm across. The species usually has five short arms and is a rounded, pentagon shape. Morphological variation is common and three, four or six arms are occasionally present. It is endemic to coastal waters in southeast Tasmania. [1]

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