Friday, March 21, 2014

The Sunflower Sea Star

Photo: Golden sea star draped on a rock


Sunflower Sea Star


A sunflower sea star is draped moplike over a seafloor rock off the British Columbia coast. Though commonly called starfish, sea stars are not fish but echinoderms, more closely related to sea urchins and sand dollars. Only the five-armed species really resemble stars—others may boast as many as 40 appendages.











(source:google/http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/)

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