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September 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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natclarke.bsky.social Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · Dec 19
Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄

Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️

Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei

Happy holidays!
Confocal microscopy image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) viewed from the oral side. The animal has a five-armed, star-shaped body with a central nerve ring. The nervous system is labeled in green, forming radial nerve cords extending into each arm, and cell nuclei are labeled in red throughout the animal. The image appears against a black background and has a holiday-ornament-like appearance.
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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echinoblog.bsky.social Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Dec 31
An observation of the large sand star, Luidia maculata with its disk depressed into the sediment! Likely feeding on some hapless urchin or somesuch! #echino2024 www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
9 armed sea star with decorative patterns feeding with disk dropped into a hole
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · Dec 20
⭐️ Harriman Alaska series
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914.

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Historical illustration from the Harriman Alaska series (1910-1914) showing the starfish species Arterias polythela. The upper image presents a full top view of the starfish with five thick, tapering arms covered in dense, bumpy texture and small spines. The lower image is a close-up detail focusing on the starfish’s rough, tuberculate surface and rows of prominent conical spines along its arms. The illustration is monochrome and scientific in style, emphasizing the starfish's textured skin and spiny features for taxonomic identification.
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This chonky mottled seastar is chowing down! #SeastarSaturday #StarfishSaturday #Evasterias
November 14, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Pycnopodia/sunflower star recovery efforts! #starfishSaturday www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
Scientists Breed Sunflower Sea Stars Key to Reviving California’s Imperiled Kelp Forests
With funding from NOAA Fisheries, The Nature Conservancy and its partners are raising sunflower sea stars in hopes of reintroducing them to the wild. This keystone species is critical to kelp forest h...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Pisaster brevispinus or perhaps an overly pink P. ochraceus for #starfishSaturday
andreapeterson.bsky.social Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · Dec 16
A large sea star just under the water surface on the dock at Elliot Bay Marina, Seattle

#TidesOutTuesday #MarineLife #SeaStar #SeaLife #XtraXmas #Star #PugetSound #PNW #Photography
A large pink sea star adhered to the side of the dock of a marina with other sea life, visible all around it and a little bit of the Puget Sound water visible in the foreground
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Abstract shots of Tosia magnifica-a goniasterid sea star from temperate Australia, showing off those smooth convex plates on its body surface! #echinoday #seastarSaturday #starfishSaturday
surface of a biscuit star composed of smooth, convex plates Closeup of surface on a biscuit star composed of many smooth flat to convex plates lateral edge of a biscuit star composed of big smooth quadrate plates with concave surface
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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From a visit to Melbourne, Australia in 2016! A lovely under shot of the 11 armed star Coscinasterias muricata showing off all those lovely asteriid tube feet! #echinoday #starfishSaturday #seastarSaturday
11 armed sea star photographed from under glass showing off many hundreds of tube feet 11 armed sea star photographed from under glass showing off many hundreds of tube feet
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The dreaded Asterias amurensis, a sea star introduced to the temperate coast of Australia back in the 80s-90s fr. the North Pacific It has undergone insane population explosions and done significant damage to shellfish and local ecology #echinoday #seastarSaturday #starfishSaturday
Yellow sea star with purple highlights sea star with 5 rays.
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Some good chonky stars pans one zippy lanky boi for #SeastarSaturday #StarfishSaturday 🦑⭐️
Pillow cushion star hanging out around some coral, round and puffy looking with dark red spots on yellow/gray, little bumpy towards the bottom A pillow cushion star nestled amongst the coral, a pencil urchin is hanging out nearby but no touchy, star is round and lots of small stumpy spiny bumps on skin, brow/yellow/orange mottled A lagoon brittle star zipping around a tide pool, so fast, so floppy. Black all over with small central body and five long bristle lined wriggly arms.
May 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM