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Starfish
Also known as sea stars, these echinoderms are 2,000 species strong and found in seas and oceans all over the world. They can vary in size from less than half an inch to more than four feet across.
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Are sea stars warm or cold blooded?
Cold blooded. But, really, sponges don't have blood, so the question can't be answered yes or no. They are cold blooded in the sense that their bodies are at the temperature of the water they are in and that they do not regulate their body temperature.
How many types of sea stars are there in the world?
there are about 35 different species:
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Hippocampus abdominalis - Big Belly Sea Horse
Hippocampus aimei - Freshwater Sea Horse
Hippocampus algiricus - West African Sea Horse
Hippocampus angustus - Western Australian Sea Horse or Narrow-bellied Sea Horse
Hippocampus antiquorum -
Hippocampus barbouri - Barbour's Sea Horse
Hippocampus bargibanti - Bargibant's Sea Horse or Pygmy Sea Horse
Hippocampus borboniensis - Réunion Sea Horse
Hippocampus breviceps - Short-snouted Sea Horse or Short-head Sea Horse
Hippocampus brevirostris - Short-snouted Sea Horse or Short-nosed Sea Horse
Hippocampus camelopardalis - Giraffe Sea Horse
Hippocampus capensis - Spinach pipefish or Knysna Sea Horse
Hippocampus comes - Tiger tail Sea Horse
Hippocampus coronatus - Japanese Sea Horse or Red and Black Sea Horse
Hippocampus dahli - Synonym for Hippocampus planifrons
Hippocampus Denise - Denise's pygmy seahorse
Hippocampus erectus - Atlantic Lined Sea Horse or Northern Sea Horse
Hippocampus fisheri - Fisher's Sea Horse
Hippocampus fuscus - Black Sea Horse or Sea pony
Hippocampus guttulatus - Long-snouted Sea Horse
Hippocampus heptagonus - Synonym for Hippocampus erectus
Hippocampus hilonis - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus hippocampus - Short-snouted Sea Horse
Hippocampus histrix - Yellow Sea Horse or Thorny Sea Horse
Hippocampus hudsonius - Synonym for Hippocampus erectus
Hippocampus hunsonius punctulatus - Synonym for Hippocampus erectus
Hippocampus ingens - Pacific Sea Horse or California Sea Horse
Hippocampus jayakari - Jayakar's Sea Horse
Hippocampus kelloggi - Great Sea Horse
Hippocampus kuda - Oceanic Sea Horse or Kellogg's Sea Horse or Common Sea Horse or Yellow Sea Horse or Spotted Sea Horse
Hippocampus laevicaudatus - Synonym for Hippocampus erectus
Hippocampus lenis - Synonym for Hippocampus planifrons
Hippocampus lichtensteinii - Lichtenstein's Sea Horse
Hippocampus melanospilos - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus minotaur - Bullneck Sea Horse
Hippocampus mohnikei - Japanese Sea Horse
Hippocampus moluccensis - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus novae-hollandiae - Synonym for Hippocampus whitei
Hippocampus obtusus -
Hippocampus planifrons - Dahl's Sea Horse
Hippocampus polytaenia - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus punctulatus - Synonym for Hippocampus erectus
Hippocampus ramulosus - Mediterranean Sea Horse
Hippocampus regulus -
Hippocampus reidi - Brazillian Sea Horse
Hippocampus rhynchomacer - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus sindonis - Dhiho's Sea Horse
Hippocampus spinosissimus - Hedgehog Sea Horse
Hippocampus subelongatus - West Australian Sea Horse
Hippocampus taeniopterus - Synonym for Hippocampus kuda
Hippocampus takakurae - Tanaka Threespot Sea Horse
Hippocampus trimaculatus - Longnose Sea Horse
Hippocampus tristis - Sad Sea Horse
Hippocampus whitei - Crowned Sea Horse or Sydney Sea Horse or New Holland Sea Horse or White's Sea Horse
Hippocampus zosterae - Dwarf Sea Horse
What is the speed of a starfish?
According to Boston University Marine Program, Biological Research Laboratory, the starfish can move at an average 15cm/min (15 centimeter per minute). [Reference Biol. Bull. 193 (October 1997)]
What are starfish behavioral adaptation?
color helps them blend into coral reefs and the bumps or spines on their bodies scare predators so they don't want to eat them. But the only things that does eat them are gulls and crabs. (seagulls)
Mainly sharks, but killer whales (orca) too occasionally.
What is the classification name of a starfish?
I think its Sea Star because starfish aren't actually fish
They just sit around and wait for the people to come and have a look at them
What is the classification of the sea star?
Star fish belong to the Phylum Enchindodermata Latin for "Spiny Skin". A phylum is the classification right under Kingdom. Star fish belong to the class Asteroidea which is Latin for "Starlike."
What is the function of the ambulacral groove?
The function of the ambulacral groove on a starfish is to open the shells of bivalves. It also hold the tubed feet of the starfish.
The answer is entirely dependant on the species to which you refer, and there are over 2000 known species of starfish to choose from.
Generally speaking the lifespan is longer in larger species. For example, Leptasterias hexactis reaches sexual maturity in two years, and lives for about ten years in total, while Pisaster ochraceus reaches maturity in five years, and may live to the age of 34.
Where is the mouth of a sea star?
They crawl on top of their prey and munch, munch, munch, nom nom nom. And they also need to breath so they have to have a mouth otherwise they would die :s hope this helpscassie.x
Most starfish are any of the following colors: pink, orange, red or grey. Though there have been cases where they can be a different color such as white.
No, they are invertebrates and therefore have no vertebrae or backbone.
What kind of FOOD does starfish eat?
Sunflowers feed off the water in the Earth and the light of the Sun.
Being autotrophs, they do not actually eat anything, but make their own food through photosynthesis.
How are starfish and humans alike?
It's different because it's in a shape of a star and if it loses one of it's legs it'll grow back.
