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This is my collection of references relevant to starfish behavior questions. It isn't sorted by subject or generally organized, but looking through titles should give you some good leads. A few non-echinoderm references are included where I found papers interesting for behavior in general or specific to chemosensory orientation problems, although this is by no means complete for either of those two subjects, as well as a few miscellaneous echinoderm papers I found generally interesting. There are also a fair number of echinoderm neurophysiology papers, as I feel these have a great deal of relevance to behavioral questions.
Suggestions for additional starfish behavior papers are welcome, as are corrections if you discover any errors (but my apologies to those whose names can't be spelled properly with this character set; I don't have any way to insert the necessary characters). I'd also be happy to include links from authors (or journals) to their home pages, as appropriate.
These references have a wealth of useful information. Many entries are also included below, but for ease of reference I've also collected them all here in one place.
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