Pisaster giganteus; Giant-spined Seastar; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Bony+fish+remains&title_tag=Bony+fish+remains>Bony fish remains</a>)</small>

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Pisaster giganteus; Giant-spined Seastar; (shown with Bony fish remains)

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Pisaster giganteus
Giant-spined Seastar
(shown with Bony fish remains)

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

ID: 0000 0000 0405 0265 (2005-04-05)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1986

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

habitat Subtidal

notes We found this Pisaster scavenging on the remains of a bony fish near a wharf. A dead fish obviously had been thrown from the wharf and thus became available to a seastar that could not have caught the living animal. Depth 16 m.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL

common names Giant-spined Seastar (photographer)

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