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Pisaster giganteus
Giant-spined Seastar
(shown with Strawberry anemones)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0405 0150 (2005-04-04)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1986

location Camel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Asteriidae

order Forcipulatida

class Asteroidea

habitat Subtidal

notes This seastar is an active predator of snails, bivalves, barnacles, and small chitons. It is not feeding on the anemones it straddles here. Diameter about 45 cm. Depth 18 m.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Giant-spined Seastar (photographer)

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