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...lemon-tree in the backround! =)
On Black (large) fiveprime.org/blackmagic.cgi?id=4160178106&size=l&...
Ken Stepp, army guy and cowboy. I loved that army jacket, notice the training wheels on back steps. Camper belonged to Walter and Shirley Yates, Hansgen's house in backround
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Valvatida
Family: Oreasteridae
Genus: Protoreaster
Genus/species: Protoreaster nodosus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Backround body color is highly variable; may be beige, brown, orange, red or other hues, such as green or blue. Horn-shaped tall dark nodules are conical and arranged in a single row, radially on the dorsal (top) side. Most horned sea stars found are a roughly rigid five-pointed star-shape (occasionally 4 or 6) with tapering arms to the end. They are blue, dark green, dark chocolate or black, sometimes surrounded by milk chocolate-colored margins are responsible for this sea stars common name.
Diameter up to 30 cm (12 in).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Red Sea, Indian and western Pacific oceans. Found in shallow sheltered sand and seagrass beds.. Depth range Depth range 1 - 582 m (3.3 - 1900 feet).
DIET IN THE WILD: The mouth is located ventrally (bottom). The star covers its food, then pushes out its stomach from inside its body of prey. Sea stars have a unique adaptation for consuming bi-valve mollusks (oysters, clams, mussels, etc.). Stars insert a portion of their stomach into the small “gape” between the valves of a mollusk. Stomach enzymes are released and digest the fleshy part of the mollusk inside its own shell. The digested contents are moved back into the sea star leaving an empty bi-valve shell. P. nodosus prefers sponges, corals, clams and snails, other invertebrates; also opportunistic carrion feeders.
REPRODUCTION: P. nodosus is a broadcast spawner. As in other sea stars, fertilization is external. Eggs and sperm are stored in the rays and released simultaneously. Larvae look nothing like the adults. The form that first hatches from the eggs is bilaterally symmetrical and planktonic. Larvae eventually settle and transform into tiny sea stars.
PREDATORS: Triggerfish, pufferfish, boxfish and parrotfish.
CONSERVATION: IUCN Not Evaluated
REMARKS: The Chocolate Chip Seastars are also called “knobbly sea star” and the “horned sea star.”
The chocolate chip sea star can regenerate lost limbs, as long as the central disk of the body is intact.
References
California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium Mangrove Pop-Up, Main floor (level one) 2018
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1ml
Atlantic City Aquarium: www.acaquarium.com/animals/chocolate-chip-sea-star/
Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/4704956/details
Georgia Aquarium www.georgiaaquarium.org/animal-guide/georgia-aquarium/hom...
Woods Hole www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/SeaStar.html
Bishop Museum hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op11-8.pdf
Georgia Aquarium www.georgiaaquarium.org/animal-guide/georgia-aquarium/hom...
Reef Creature Identification, Humann and Deloach 2010, page 426
Marine Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-008-1064-2
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/15010829781/in/set-7215...
1-23-13, 9-26-14, 1-9-17, 2-3--18
SOO 4451 (GP38-2) and in the backround CP 2207 (GP20E for ECO) both wait for their warrants. the SOO continued into Franklin Park wile CP went back into Bensenville
is that an awsome mtb backround or what?
(got a shot of it in the april mountain bike action, sweet!!! was posted by www.YourMTB.com user carbon rr pilot)
Animata with custom backround as Jackal Series
Visit this location at Sudden Stop Adult Furry SandBox in Second Life