Aquilonastra burtoni: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Class
Asteroidea
Order
Valvatida
Family
Asterinidae
Genus
Aquilonastra
Species
Aquilonastra burtoni
Scientific Name
Aquilonastra burtoni

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Aquilonastra burtoni

Aquilonastra burtoni is a species of small sea star from the family Asterinidae from the Red Sea which has colonised the eastern Mediterranean by Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal, although the Mediterranean populations are clonal reproducing through fissiparous asexual reproduction. It was originally described in 1840 by the English zoologist and philatelist John Edward Gray.

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Aquilonastra burtoni
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Aquilonastra burtoni
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