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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by FITINDIA 10:56, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Novodinia antillensis

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  • ... that the deepsea starfish Novodinia antillensis has large eyespots on the tips of its arms but these may be non-functional?

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 20:46, 31 January 2018 (UTC).

  • Article was new enough and long enough. The lead does not appear to be supported by any source. Is the exact species specified anywhere in #3? Having some close paraphrase concerns regarding the sentence sourced to #6. Image is properly licensed and identified. Otherwise no issues of plagiarism or copyvio that I can see. Hook is supported to offline source and moderately interesting. QPQ is done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:56, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
  • @Jo-Jo Eumerus: Thank you for reviewing the article. I have added a reference to the lead, the information came from the image caption. #3 does not mention this species by name but it does discuss the feeding methods of "Brisingids" and gives the genus as an example; Brisingidae is the family in which this genus and species are included. #6 Please quote the sentence in the source which you consider closely paraphrased. I think it is difficult to provide such factual information without using somewhat similar wording. I think the hook is very interesting. Most starfish do not have eyes. This one lives at 500m, where it is absolutely dark, yet it has eyes, which is surprising in itself, but having non-functioning eyes under these circumstances seems inexplicable. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:43, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
    I was thinking of the title of the now-source #7 but now thinking about this it was probably overblown. Thus Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:58, 9 February 2018 (UTC)