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Benthopecten mutabilis Fisher, 1910
Sea Star
Family: Notomyotida
Extracted from Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound by Philip Lambert.
Introduction to the Echinoderms of BC

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Distribution of Benthopecten mutabilis in British Columbia in British Columbia

Introduction


Family Description:

Primarily a deep water family. Small disc; long, narrow arms that taper towards the tips. The main characteristic is a pair of longitudinal muscles on the aboral side of each arm from the level of the third to ninth superomarginal to the arm tip. Papulae confined to papularia on the arms or disc. Supero- and inferomarginals alternate and have long spines. The tube feet have suckers. The pedicellariae are pectinate.

Distribution

Distribution

Found deeper than 200 metres.

Status Information

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(Red Blue List)		COSEWIC
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