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TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Pisaster brevispinus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS The pink sea star reaches a maximum diameter of nearly 65 cm (2 ft); however, individuals are usually smaller. Its central disc has a raised, humplike appearance. They are robust, pink in color and have aboral spines much shorter than those of other Pisaster species, thus its scientific name, which translates as "short-spined sea star."
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT They range from Sitka, Alaska to San Diego County, California. They can occasional be seen in the low intertidal zone, but are more commonly found in deeper water to 90 m (300 ft ) on sand and mud substrates, but sometimes on rocks and pier pilings in calm waters. They cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to air.
DIET IN THE WILD: Pink sea stars prey on live clams, snails, sand dollars, barnacles, mussels, tubedwelling annelid worms, and scavenge on dead fish and squid. On soft surfaces, P. brevispinus digs into sand or mud with its arms. It also can extend its tube feet (the ones around its disk) to a length of 20 cm (8 in). When the tube feet reach a clam buried in the mud, they attach and the sea star hauls it up. On shale, it can lower its stomach into the burrow of a clam and digest the animal in place. Their large size may well be due to their access to a plentiful food supply of large organisms unavailable to potential competitors.
PREDATORS Large adults have few predators, but they may be taken by the sunflower sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides. Sea otters have been known to detach rays to consume gonads, and
sea gulls occasionally feed on individuals exposed during very low tides.
REPRODUCTION They spawn in the spring. Sexes are separate and fertilization takes place externally. Larvae disperse in the water column. Pink stars can live up to 20 years.
REMARKS: Can chemosense clams through sand. May dig down to the clam for 2 –3 days or extend tube feet to the clam a distance equal to the arm radius to 20 cm (7.8 in). Once contacted,the clam is lifted from the substrate or the stomach may be everted to 8 cm (3.15 in) to digest the prey in place. Some sand-bottom invertebrates including the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus and the snail Olivella biplicata chemosense the presence of a pink star and attempt to avoid contact by burrowing.
Tidepool
References
California Acad. of Sciences Tidepool exhibit 2015
Walla Walla Univ. www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/...
EOL eol.org/pages/598470/details
Ron's WORDPRESS SHORTLINK wp.me/p1DZ4b-tA
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608501343477/
4-18-12, 11-4-15
Strobist: sunpak 26dx at 1/4 up left through shoot through umbrella, silver reflector close in down right of flowers.
Combination of several shots each with 1 or 2 petals falling as I couldn't get a spread pattern of petals in 1 shot so decided to combine in post process
I am back after 2 weeks due to some technical problems :) hope you are not missing me ? still people are seeing & commenting on my photos, thank you all . . . .
well here is something I edit recently, Hope you liked it Press 'L' to view in black
Olha eu de novo rs...
Então passei esse Rosa q ficou muito blé em mim, ñ gostei e o coitadinho estava encalhado aqui ah um tempão!
Eu usei:
1x Base
3x Pink Fluor
1x Roxinho
Como ñ gostei dele fiquei só um dia e já passei outro...
=****
Pink unicorn for my daughter, from the pattern for a horse and unicorn from Funky Friends Factory. I love this pattern! The unicorn turned out so great, although I need to add more stuffing in the legs.
New England is enjoying warm sunshine and temperatures in the high 60s...our missing 'Indian Summer' weather, which is needed for those last steps of putting the gardens to be for the winter... the hollyhocks, of course, are long gone [but living on in the photo files, happily! ]
Vanilla cupcakes topped with pink and rose buttercream.
Wilton Colours used: Pink (for the flat part) and Rose (for the roses and the swirls)
The water droplets seem to absorb the pink of the lovely rose. IN MEMORY OF MY PRECIOUS AND LOVING MOM WHO DIED OF BREAST CANCER IN FEBRUARY OF 1990. "Pink Drops", thanks to all of you, made EXPLORE at #353 on February 1st. Le goccioline di acqua sembrano assorbire il garofano della bella rosa. In memoria della mia preziosa ed amorosa mamma che morì a causa di cancro di seno a febbraio 1990.Las gotitas de agua seem absorber el rosado de la rosa encantadora. En la memoria de mi mami preciada y cariñosa que murió del cáncer de mama en febrero 1990.Die Wassertröpfchen scheinen das Rosa der schönen Rose aufzunehmen. In Gedächtnis von meiner kostbaren und liebevollen Mama, die im Februar 1990 an Brustkerbs starb.As gotinhas de água parecem absorver o cor-de-rosa da rosa adorável. Em memória de minha mãe preciosa e amorosa que morreu de câncer de peito em 1990 de fevereiro.
Can't believe that it's the end of term already. Finlay is on holiday for 8 weeks. My flickr time is going to be limited during the holidays as I will be away.
Looking forward to seeing Jo & Meredith in London. Will have a couple of weeks in Tunisia and also a trip to the Isle of Skye.
Looking forward to reading the Millennium triology by Steig Larsson.
This afternoon, near under the farmershouse, when I looked up, the sky drow something by blue and pink colour.
Top to bottom:
Posh Yarn "Sophia" Cashmere -- Raspberry
Mama Llama Cashmere -- Pink
Mama Llama "Lux" Merino/Bamboo/Silk -- Grand