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Pycnopodia helianthoides
Pycnopodia helianthoides
Sunflower Star
Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0806 0865 (2006-08-16)

Copyright © 2006 California Academy of Sciences

 
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  • date of photo  1987
  • latitude 36.81856   longitude -121.79270   max error distance 26012 meters     View on Google Maps.
  • horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984
  • georeferencing source GeoLocate
  • location   Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)
  • family Asteriidae
  • order Forcipulatida
  • class Asteroidea
  • notes   This closeup of the dorsum of the sunflower star shows the animal's spines surounded by pincers together with the intervening skin gills.
  • camera   Olympus system for macrophotography
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
  • common names   Sunflower Star (photographer)
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