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Related FAQs: Sea Stars 1, Sea
Stars 2, Sea Stars 3, Sea Stars 4, Sea
Stars 5, Brittle Stars,
Seastar ID 1, Seastar ID 2, Seastar ID 5, Seastar ID 6 & Seastar Selection, Seastar Compatibility, Seastar Behavior, Seastar Systems, Seastar Feeding, Seastar Reproduction, Seastar Disease, Seastar Disease 2, Seastar Disease 3,
Star Disease 4, Star
Disease 5, & Asterina Stars, Chocolate Chip Stars, Crown of Thorns Stars, Fromia Stars, Linckia Stars, Linckia Stars 2, Sand-Sifting
Stars,
Related Articles:
Echinoderms, An Introduction to the
Echinoderms: The Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers and
More... By James W. Fatherree, M.Sc. Brittle
Stars, Asterina Stars,
Crown of Thorns Seastars,
Marine
Scavengers,
Sea Stars, Class Asteroidea
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By Bob Fenner
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"Other" Asteroids One Sees From Time To
Time:
| Echinaster luzonicus (Gray 1840). Variable
in color (yellow, green, brown, red... to mottled). Western
Pacific. This one in S. Sulawesi. |
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Genus Mithrodia:
| Mithrodia bradleyi Verrill 1867,
Bradley's Sea Star. Family Mithrodiidae. Subcylindrical arms
that constrict toward the small central area. Irregular blunt
spines over all arms. To fourteen inches across. Eastern and
Central Pacific; Lower Sea of Cortez to Peru, including Galapagos
Islands. Galapagos pic. |
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| Mithrodia clavigera Bali 2014, TiffB pic |
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| Mithrodia fisheri Holly 1932, Fisher's
Star. Body covered with large bumps. Color variable; from white to
cinnamon, generally with dark banding on roundish arms that have a
lateral row of blunt spines. Feeds on sponges, bryozoans, other
sessile invertebrates. Most about 4-6 inches in diameter though
attains at least a foot. Daytime and nocturnal. Kona pix. |
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