reddish sea star with soft, ruffled surface
Hymenaster! Slime stars are always such a spectacle! #okeanos at about 1700 m depth Kahalewai central Pacific #seastarSaturday Surface of this animal is nearly gelatinous and spews mucus as a defense!
big orange brisingd sea star with about 10 arms on a rod/branch with 6 or 7 smaller feather stars that are yellow
A large brisingid hanging out with some feather stars! All these animals are filter/suspension feeders and all take advantage of the same water current to feed. Some on small particulates and some are predators on crustaaceans #okeanos central Pacific TeKawhiti #seastarSaturday
orange sea star with spines on a black rock bottom, with sand. worm has a yellow worm riding on surface
The coral predator Hippasteria having a quiet moment with its lil yellow scale worm friend! It turns out these are quite common-but not observed on trawl specimens. #okeanos Te Kawhiti in the Central Pacific #seastarSaturday
14 armed sea star, orange with bumbs. dark orange disk.
14 armed sea star, orange with bumbs. dark orange disk.
Brisingid, poss. Brisingenes with parasites along its many arms! East Necker Seamount, North Pacific #okeanos #seastarSaturday
12 armed sea star with white arms, red disk
A brisingid sea star, poss. Hymenodiscus from East Necker Seamount in the North Pacific, #okeanos during #CAPSTONE expedition! #seastarSaturday
surface of a biscuit star composed of smooth, convex plates
Closeup of surface on a biscuit star composed of many smooth flat to convex plates
lateral edge of a biscuit star composed of big smooth quadrate plates with concave surface
Abstract shots of Tosia magnifica-a goniasterid sea star from temperate Australia, showing off those smooth convex plates on its body surface! #echinoday #seastarSaturday #starfishSaturday
Yellow sea star with purple highlights sea star with 5 rays.
The dreaded Asterias amurensis, a sea star introduced to the temperate coast of Australia back in the 80s-90s fr. the North Pacific It has undergone insane population explosions and done significant damage to shellfish and local ecology #echinoday #seastarSaturday #starfishSaturday
11 armed sea star photographed from under glass showing off many hundreds of tube feet
11 armed sea star photographed from under glass showing off many hundreds of tube feet
From a visit to Melbourne, Australia in 2016! A lovely under shot of the 11 armed star Coscinasterias muricata showing off all those lovely asteriid tube feet! #echinoday #starfishSaturday #seastarSaturday
An orange “ochre” star (*Pisaster ochraceus*) feeds in a mussel bed on a Southern California rocky reef.
Is #SeastarSaturday a thing? 🌊⭐️ After losing so many of these important predators along the west coast of North America a decade ago, seeing their return to our rocky shores always makes me happy. 🤩 #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑
An orange-and-gray, mottled seastar rests atop a bed of sea lettuce.
Salish Seastar. #Dermasterias #SeastarSaturday #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊
Pillow cushion star hanging out around some coral, round and puffy looking with dark red spots on yellow/gray, little bumpy towards the bottom
A pillow cushion star nestled amongst the coral, a pencil urchin is hanging out nearby but no touchy, star is round and lots of small stumpy spiny bumps on skin, brow/yellow/orange mottled
A lagoon brittle star zipping around a tide pool, so fast, so floppy. Black all over with small central body and five long bristle lined wriggly arms.
Some good chonky stars pans one zippy lanky boi for #SeastarSaturday #StarfishSaturday 🦑⭐️
