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WHEN discussing Fell's theories on the phylogeny of sea-stars1–3, Philip4 omitted any comparison of living forms with somasteroids. This comparison, however, deserves a short comment.
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MADSEN, F. The Recent Sea-star Platasterias and the Fossil Somasteroidea. Nature 209, 1367 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091367a0
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