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  • For simplified communications, Worsel immediately dubbed the starfish "Asterias" and the globe

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • 'Singingfish Asterias' = > array ( 'Asterias', ''),

    phpBB.com 2009

  • 'Singingfish Asterias' = > array ( 'Asterias', ''),

    phpBB.com 2009

  • They were all of a single species, Asterias forbesii, so far as I could see.

    "Close your eyes, clear your heart, and cut the cord." greygirlbeast 2009

  • A sun-bleached Forbe's starfish (Asterias forbesii) we found far back from the water.

    "...I heard the earth inhale, moments before..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • More than 30,000 Northern Pacific seastars (Asterias amurensis) were removed from the shallow waters of southern Tasmania in 1993.

    Aquatic invasive species 2008

  • Introduced species for this LME include the North Pacific sea star (Asterias amurensis) and the Japanese kelp.

    Southeast Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem 2008

  • With the extra-dimensional blast the hatchway buckled and the Asterias was blown into shreds.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • He and Worsel and Kallatra all felt the last great surge of life force flow telepathically into the Lens which was still part of him, the Lens which lived, quiescent, within the head-body of the Asterias.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • The only one to be found in the European seas resembles the Star-Fish closely, and they called it Asterias; but even Aristotle was ignorant of its true structural relations, and alludes only to its motion and general appearance.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

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