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Culcita novaeguineae Müller & Troschel, 1842

Pin Cushion Seastar




Emily Searle (2011)

 

 

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Bibliographies

Hawkins, SV (2006),’Feeding Preference of the Cushion Star, Culcita Novaeguineae in Mo’orea’ UCB Moorea Class: Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands, Berkeley Natural History Museum, UC Berkeley.

Hickman, CP, Roberts, LS, Keen, SL, Larson, A, I'Anson, H, & Eisenhour, DJ (2008), 'Integrated Principals of Zoology: Fourtneenth Edition',  McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Hoegh-Guldberg, O (1999), 'Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs', Marine & Freshwater Research, vol. 50, pp. 839-866.

Krupp, DA (1985), ‘Feeding Biology of a Hawaiian Sea Star Corallivore, Culcita novaeguineae’, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, vol. 95, pp. 75-96.

Marsh, LM & Marshall, JI (1983), 'Some aspects of the zoogeography of northwestern Australian echinoderms (other than holothurians)', Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 673-687.

Yamagutchi, M (1975), ‘Coral-Reef Asteroids of Guam’ The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 12-23.

Yamaguchi, M (1977), ‘Estimating the Legnth of the Exponential Growth Phase: Growth Increment Observations on the Coral-Reef Asteroid Culcita novaeguineae', Marine Biology, vol. 39, pp. 57-59.

 

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