| Acanthaster brevispinus | |
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| Specimen collected by trawling on soft substrate inshore of the Great Barrier Reef | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Valvatida |
| Family: | Acanthasteridae |
| Genus: | Acanthaster |
| Species: | A. brevispinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthaster brevispinus Fisher 1917, p. 92
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Acanthaster brevispinus, the short-spined crown-of-thorns starfish, is one of the two members of the starfish genus Acanthaster, along with the much better-known A. planci, the common crown-of-thorns starfish.