These three challenges revealed that starfish have a hidden bilateral symmetry, and move in a preferred direction. They tend to lead with the fifth arm. Starfish have a small wart-like valve called a madreporite, which allows water into their bodies.
It sits in the central disc, but off to one side. The arm opposite the madreporite is arm number 1, and the rest are numbered clockwise. Ji and Wu think that this hint of bilateral symmetry is a faint vestige of the body that starfish have as larvae. If they have a preferred direction, they could potentially make faster decisions in times of danger. It has a ring of nerves in its central disc, with spokes branching off into each of the arms.
Perhaps these nerves are slightly more concentrated towards the fifth arm, just as our nerves are more concentrated inside our skulls. Reference: Ji, C.
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