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From: Outbreak of coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns creates continuous cloud of larvae over 320 km of the Great Barrier Reef

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Photographs of ethanol fixed larvae from laboratory cultures and field collections.

A. planci larvae from cultures: (A) early bipinnaria (2d larvae), (B) bipinnaria (6d) and (C) (14d) Brachiolaria Larvae. Larvae genetically identified as Asteroidea, nearest GenBank matches (D) Luidia maculata, (E) Oreaster occidentalis, (F) Patiriella parvivipara; and Holothuroidea: (G) Holothuria impatiens, (H) H. colouber and (I) H. arenicola. Details for GenBank matches are given in Supplementary Table 3.

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