The next thing I want to show you is the makeup of the inside of the arm, with the snail embedded, and then as it is extracted, and then what remains.   Some of the pictures are diagramed and color coded.  Explanations are next to each picture.  To enlarge each picture, again....click on it!

I split the arm lengthwise, just along the side of the hole/entryway.

Outlined in blue is the meat inside of the leg of the starfish, (the tiny little arms with the suction cups that carry food to the mouth are a part of this flesh)

Outlined in red is the opening/hole.

Outlined in green is the snail, embedded inside the arm of the starfish, having eaten any flesh that had been where it is located.

From another angle:

Outlined in red is the hole.

Outlined in blue is the flesh inside of the arm of the starfish.

Outlined in green is the snail, deeply embedded and stuck tight to the inside of the arm. 

This is the other half of that same arm. 

Outlined in blue is the flesh of the starfish, and the rest of the arm appeared to have been eaten clean at this point. 

For the rest of this study, and a lot more pictures during the extraction,

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