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Pisaster giganteus
Giant-spined Seastar
(shown with Tegula funebralis)

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

ID: 0000 0000 0405 0396 (2005-04-05)

INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO

date of photo Jun 26, 1998

location From Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Asteriidae

order Forcipulatida

class Asteroidea

habitat Subtidal

notes 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.

camera Nikon

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Giant-spined Seastar (photographer)

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