The collection location and morphological features of Sabellastarte species traded in the UK.

Taxonomic groupings (A–L) based on specimens from the Singapore, Philippines and Kenya supplied by TMC. Information listed includes the number of specimens in each group, their locality, defining morphological characters; thorax (Thx), dorsal lips (dl), radioles (rds), branchial crown (bc), crown web (wb), collar (c), thoracic chaetae (thx ch), abdominal chaetae (ab ch), ventral collar lappets (vcl) collar pockets (cp) and dorsal lobes (dlb), and a conclusion to which species from the genus the group is most closely suited with their known distribution (Knight-Jones and Mackie, 2003). Specimens from the Indo Pacific Ocean includes records from; Zanzibar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Hawaii & Western and Northern Australia.