Figure 3 Astrolirus. patricki sp. nov. actinal view. (A D), (G), holotype RSIOAS044. (A) Actinal surface of the disk. (B) oral plates and spines; (C) Interradial angle between arms, red arrow shows the first marginal plates, yellow arrow shows the second marginal plate. (D) Lateral view of the disk, showing the conjunction of plates in the interradii. Red arrows show the first marginal plates, yellow arrows show the first adambulacral plates, white arrow shoes the interradial plate. (E) Paratype RSIOAS003, lateral view of the disk, red arrows show the first marginal plates, yellow arrows show the first adambulacral plates, white arrow shoes the interradial plate. (F) Paratype RSIOAS052, adambulacral plates and spines at the middle of arm, yellow arrows show the subambulacral spines, white arrows show the furrow spines, red arrows show the lateral spines. (G) One of the paired gonads and digestive caeca in genital area. Full-size DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9071/fig-3

Published as part of Zhang, Ruiyan, Zhou, Yadong, Xiao, Ning & Wang, Chunsheng, 2020, A new sponge-associated starfish, Astrolirus patricki sp. nov. (Asteroidea: Brisingida: Brisingidae), from the northwestern Pacific seamounts, pp. e9071 in PeerJ 8 on page 7, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9071, http://zenodo.org/record/4621673