Template:Did you know nominations/Echinaster luzonicus

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:23, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Echinaster luzonicus, Echinasteridae, Coeloplana astericola

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Several creeping comb jellies on Luzon sea star

~~... that the creeping comb jelly lives on the surface of a starfish in the Echinasteridae family which reproduces by shedding its arms?~~

Reviewed: Zhang Xiaoqian
Comment: Also reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Walker (rodeo) and Template:Did you know nominations/Seattle head tax

Created/expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:13, 25 June 2018 (UTC).

All three articles are new enough (two new, one 5x expansion), long enough, and well referenced. Hook is very interesting and verified with inline source. Three QPQs are done. No copyvio detected. Image very nicely illustrates the hook and is freely licensed. My only concern is that the hook is a bit ambiguous and may give the impression that the entire Echinasteridae family reproduces by autotomy, while in fact only E. luzonicus does. -Zanhe (talk) 04:34, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

@Zanhe: Sorry, I missed this. Perhaps we had better forget about the autotomy, which is unique for the genus but not the family, and just have

ALT1 ... that the creeping comb jelly lives on the surface of a starfish (pictured) in the Echinasteridae family? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:24, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

ALT1 is interesting and verified with inline sources. Good to go. -Zanhe (talk) 18:26, 4 July 2018 (UTC)