Summary ²

Dermasterias imbricata or the leather star is a starfish in the family Asteropseidae. It is found at depths of up to one hundred metres off the western seaboard of North America.

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1. (c) Liam O'Brien, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Liam O'Brien
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermasterias_imbricata

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