Image of Giant Pink Sea Star
Description:
Photographed at 16 m. This sea star is a predator of clams, snails, and sand dollars. Also, they scavenge on dead fish and squid.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa ("Starfish, brittle stars, and basket stars")
- Asteroidea (sea stars)
- Forcipulatacea
- Forcipulatida
- Asteriidae
- Pisaster (Pacific Sea Stars)
- Pisaster brevispinus (Giant Pink Sea Star)
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- 2006 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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