
Patiriella is a genus of sea stars of the family Asterinidae. Many species formerly included in this genus have been transferred to other genera (Cryptasterina, Meridiastra, and Parvulastra). They are commonly known as carpet sea stars.
Carpet Sea Star
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Patiriella is a genus of sea stars of the family Asterinidae. Many species formerly included in this genus have been transferred to other genera (Cryptasterina, Meridiastra, and Parvulastra). They are commonly known as carpet sea stars.
The genus is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, primarily around Australia and the south-west Pacific. They occur in shallow waters down to a depth of about .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).