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Left: Basic structure of the podium (tube foot) of the common starfish, Asterias Rubens, showing the muscles used for contracting and deforming the ampulla and podium. Right: A starfish righting itself on the sea floor, with close-up of the leg showing many podia in actuation [photographs by Iain Anderson].
