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Tasmanian Live-bearing Sea Star
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Tasmanian Live-bearing Sea Star

Parvulastra vivipara

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.

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