Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons descendants bore the same curse creating a mythical species of Gorgons.[3] Euryale was a character,in Marvels Battlestar Galactica comic 1981,who telepathic abilities to mesmerize men into doing her will.Lt.Starbucks was immune.This was their version of the Medusa myth.Euryale,was the so called Queen of Scavenge World .She tries to trap Lt.Starbuck there for a few issues until he manages to build a adandoned star ship-one left by the ancients,about the time of the Lords of Kobal.Later,Euryale follows Starbuck and tried to take him back,but Captain Apollo and Starbuck device a trick to keep her reclaiming the colonial Warrior. Sometime in the
Astrocladus euryale white to pale grey with black stripes. Disc can be up to about 200mm diameter with extended arms up to 500mm long, Often found on high points of a reef or up on sea fans, noble corals or sponges when feeding. Found on reefs from below about 10m to about 90m. Originally described as "Asterias euryale" by A. J. Retzius, in "Anmärkningar vid. Asteriae genus. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar". Volume 4, pages 230-248, (1783) Astrocladus euryale Astrocladus euryale, the basket star, or gorgon's head is a brittlestar of the family Gorgonocephalidae found in the coastal waters of South Africa from