Ochre Sea Star

Description: English: What happens when you put a tube foot into your mouth?..A “Pisaster” is waiting to happen! This opportunistic Western Gull is ready to engulf an ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), one of the few predators to eat these intertidal invertebrates. Date: 22 January 2021. Source: https://twitter.com/MBNMS/status/1352678710206459911/photo/1. Author: NOAA.

Description: English: Big pile of Pisaster ochraceus, Bellingham, Washington, USA. Date: 30 April 2010, 10:55:03. Source: http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_16_2010_k52Rjv7IHc_08_16_2010_1#.Ur0-PPfTnrd. Author: Photographer: Collin Smith, U.S. Geological Survey.

Description: English: Pisaster ochraceus (Brandt, 1835) - Preserved specimen - Syntype Pisaster ochraceus nodiferus (YPM IZ 002240.EC). Digital Image: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; photo by Eric A. Lazo-Wasem 2010 Location Coordinate uncertainty in metres 8112.7 Country or area United States of America Country code US County Monterey County Decimal latitude 36.596462 Decimal longitude -121.886871 Geodetic datum WGS84 Georeference protocol digital resource Georeference remarks provisional matching georeference from VertNet, 5 Feb 2015, LFG Georeference sources VertNet Georeferenced date 2015 Higher geography North America; USA; California; Monterey County; Monterey Municipality Monterey State province California. Source: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1039278392. Author: J. M. Blake Gall L (2019). Invertebrate Zoology Division, Yale Peabody Museum. Yale University Peabody Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0lkr3w accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-01-15. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1039278392.