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Sea Star
Dissection sequence - picture 4: ampullae and ambulacral ridge

Sea star image

Image by: Bryan Yang

Internal anatomy of a preserved sea star. The hepatic caeca and gonads have been removed to expose all the ampullae and the entire ambulacral ridge.  This is the fourth in a sequence of five pictures.


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