Animalia > Echinodermata > Asteroidea > Valvatida > Solasteridae > Crossaster > Crossaster papposus

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star; zonnester; piggsolstjerne; röd solsjöstjärna; Gewöhnlicher Sonnenstern; rose star)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common sunstar or Crossaster papposus is a species of sea star belonging to the family Solasteridae. It is found in the northern parts of both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
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Infraspecies

Crossaster papposus var. papposus
Crossaster papposus var. septemtrionalis

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  20 years
Water Biome [1]  Coastal

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Degen R & Faulwetter S (2019) The Arctic Traits Database – a repository of Arctic benthic invertebrate traits, Earth System Science Data 11: 301-322. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-301-2019
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Predators of Sea Anemones, J. R. Ottaway, Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977, pp. 213 - 220
♦ 5A seventeen-year study of the rose star Crossaster papposus population in a coastal bay in southeast Alaska, H. R. Carlson and C. A. Pfister, Marine Biology (1999) 133: 223-230
♦ 6Interactions between a sea pen and seven of its predators, Charles Birkeland, Ecological Monographs (1974) 44:211-232
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0