Image of Giant sea star
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Description:
With tube feet attached, Pisaster slowly moves its captured prey along one arm toward the mouth. The seastar then turns the snail so it can insert its stomach through the shell's aperture and digest the snail. The shell, with a barnacle attached, later will be discarded. The encounter was set up in our home aquarium.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa
- Asteroidea (sea stars)
- Forcipulatacea
- Forcipulatida
- Asteriidae
- Pisaster
- Pisaster giganteus (Giant sea star)
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Source Information
- license
- cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
- copyright
- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
- photographer
- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
- original
- original media file
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- CalPhotos in DwC-A
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