Brooding snake star
A species of Amphipholis Scientific name : Amphipholis squamata Genus : Amphipholis
Brooding snake star, A species of Amphipholis
Botanical name: Amphipholis squamata
Genus: Amphipholis
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Description
Description
This species is small, grey to bluish-white, and phosphorescent. It has thin, short arms around 20 mm long. The round disc is 3 to 5mm, and has a scale covering with D-shaped radial plates. It has rhombic-shaped mouth shields and extremely wide mouth papillae.
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Photo By Mark Blaxter , used under PUBLIC-DOMAIN /Cropped and compressed from original