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Starfish is the title of novels by Peter Watts [134] and Jennie Orbell, [135] and in 2012, Alice Addison wrote a non-fiction book titled Starfish: A Year in the Life of Bereavement and Depression. [136]
Patiria miniata, the bat star, sea bat, webbed star, or broad-disk star, is a species of sea star (also called a starfish) in the family Asterinidae. It typically has five arms, with the center disk of the animal being much wider than the stubby arms are in length. [2] Although the bat star usually has five arms, it sometimes has as many as ...
The rainbow star is a large starfish, growing to a diameter of about 50 centimetres (20 in) with an arm length of 21 centimetres (8.3 in). It usually has five slender tapering arms and the aboral (upper) surface is pink or red with irregular patches or bands of darker red, orange or grey.
The genus Linckia, as is true of other species of starfish, is recognized by scientists as being possessed of remarkable regenerative capabilities, and endowed with powers of defensive autotomy against predators: [citation needed] Although not yet documented, L. laevigata may be able to reproduce asexually, as does the related species Linckia ...
Fissiparity in the starfish family Asteriidae is confined to the genera Coscinasterias, Stephanasterias and Sclerasterias. [1] Another family in which asexual reproduction by fission has independently arisen is the Asterinidae. [2] The life span is at least four years. [3] A dense population of Stephanasterias albula was studied at North Lubec ...
Underside of a sunflower sea star. Sunflower sea stars can reach an arm span of 1 m (3.3 ft). They are the heaviest known sea star, weighing about 5 kg. [4] They are the second-biggest sea star in the world, second only to the little known deep water Midgardia xandaros, whose arm span is 134 cm (53 in) and whose body is 2.6 cm (roughly 1 inch) wide. [7]
It competes with the starfish Uniophora granifera and Coscinasterias muricata, and Pacific walruses, Odobenus rosmarus ssp. divergens, for bivalve prey. [4] A possible commensal is the bacterium Colwellia asteriadis, a new species published in 2010, which has only been isolated from Asterias amurensis hosts in the sea off Korea. These showed no ...
Leptasterias aequalis, common names little six-rayed seastar or six-armed star, is a species of brooding starfish. [1] This is a small species, with a total width of only about 5 centimetres (2.0 in). The coloration is extremely variable. This seastar is found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, [2] from Washington [3] to Southern California.