What is the most common starfish?
It is the SUNFLOWER STARFISH.
The sunflower starfish (Pycnopodia helianthoides) is a large predatory starfish usually with 16-24 limbs called rays. It is the largest starfish in the world. Sunflower starfish can grow to have an arm span of 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) in diameter.The color of the sunflower starfish ranges from bright orange, yellow and red to brown and sometimes to purple, with soft, velvet-textured bodies and 16-24 arms with powerful suckers. Most starfish species have a mesh-like skeleton that protects their internal organs. Easily stressed by predators such as large fish and other starfish, they can shed arms to escape, which will grow back within a few weeks. They are preyed upon by the king crab.
Can you keep a starfish as a pet?
yes you can but you need a big tank, mussles shrimp or small creature it will eat thermomater 74 to 80 degrees in their water, salt or fresh water, sand, a sponge,and a few pieces of coral a reef or anything in that nature and love
How are humans a threats to starfish?
Pretty much all they do their whole lives is eat. They also move around and reproduce. They eat a super lot. That explains why they are fat.
They can move, and they eat dead and decaying things to clear the water, and stop alge from growing over and killing sponges and coral reefs.
Starfish can eat sponges(like Spongecake Smartypants).They also like to fly up above the clouds and dig tunnels.The most common starfish is Patric.He can kick sky capers and he likes to stay up all night watching tv and pla
How do you know when a starfish is dead?
how you know if a star fish is is alive is some star fish may be red because that is their natural color. When they are picked up they will move or also curl their armes in and out because of lack of oxygen.
How many digestive glands does a starfish have?
When the starfish catches its prey, it prys open the mollusk with its arms. Then it injects its stomach and dissolves the insides of the mollusk. It then brings its stomach back into its own body and digests the food. It is basically turns its stomach inside out.
What are 5 What are facts about starfish?
Sea stars, also known as starfish, are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
Interesting Facts about Starfish:
Starfish are also known as sea stars and are not really fish despite the name been given to them. These are echinoderms, which are found abundant in the deep blue seas and shallow waters as well.
The characteristic feature of the starfish is the 5 (or even more) arms. The surface of these arms is often spiky in appearance.
If you have ever encountered a starfish and turned it over, you will find projections on the underside. These are known as tube feet, which serve two basic functions - one being able to move around the ocean floor and the other to open up a scallop or clam.
An interesting fact about the starfish is that it has two stomachs. The cardiac stomach can help the starfish to engulf food outside its body. When the cardiac stomach comes back into the body, the food in it is transferred to the pyloric stomach.
The tube feet play an important role in helping the starfish to procure its food. The tube feet are used to open up the oysters or clams. Then the stomach is extended into the shell to pull the food inside.
Have you ever tried locating the mouth of a starfish? It is located on the ventral surface, underneath the upper surface.
The total number of species of the starfish is a mind-boggling number of around 1800! This would represent only the various kinds of starfish have been discovered till date.
Starfish are found in all the oceans around the world. A large variety of the same is seen in the tropical area of the Indo-Pacific. These also live in the coral reefs and seabeds that are really at great depths. Starfish are never found in fresh water.
The Coscinasterias Calamaria also known as the eleven-armed sea star has an armspread that can go up to 30 cm. As the name suggests, it does have eleven arms but there are times when the number can go up to 14.
The starfish have microscopic eyes at the end of each arm; this enables the starfish to view movement and differentiate between light and dark.
Most starfish have a spiky surface as a means of protection. The crown-of-thorns starfish is known for its thorny spines that are present all over the body.
The patterns seen in a starfish are many. Bright colors and stripes occur often in case of starfish.
In case a starfish loses its arm, it is capable of regenerating the same!they live for a while
The live up to 98 years old.They eat oysters and clams.
Does a starfish live in warm or cold water?
Anglerfish, like most fish, are considered to be cold blooded as they use exothermic means to control their body temperature. This means that they control their temperature via external means by taking advantage of the environment around them. This would include things like moving to warmer water to warm up, or deeper water to cool down.
What is the function of gonads on the starfish?
The gonads of a starfish appear larger when it is mating season.
How long takes for starfish develop?
Starfish, or Sea Star, a bottom-dwelling marine animal. Despite its name, the starfish is not a fish; it is an echinoderm, a type of marine animal that is spiny-skinned. There are about 2,000 species, found in all seas, and most often near rocky shores. Starfish typically have five or more tapering arms radiating from a central point. The mouth is in the center on the underside. Extending from the mouth to the tip of each arm are grooves lined with tubelike feet. In certain species, the feet have suction disks. The starfish uses its feet to crawl along the ocean bottom. When an arm is lost, a new one soon grows in its place. Most starfish are brightly colored; red, orange, yellow, and pink are common colors. They vary in size from less than 1/2 inch (13 mm) across to more than four feet (1.2 m).
yes Sea Stars have a eye spot at the end of each arm. They have poor eyesight but can see changes in light.
Are there male and female starfish?
yes, there are male and female starfish. they do not mate. they just release their gametes in the water and wait for the gamete of the opposite sex to fertilize it. some species of starfish can also reproduce through regeneration.
What is starfish float swimming?
The jellyfish float is also known as the survival float. The survival float is used to conserve energy when you are in trouble in the water, or waiting to be rescued. 1. Take a deep breath
2. Put your face in the water and exhale, let your arms and legs hang freely and rest in this position for a few seconds.*
3. To take another breath, slowly lift the arms to about shoulder height and move the arms forward. Separate the legs, moving one leg forward and the other back.
4. Gently press down with the arms while bringing the legs together. This movement lifts the mouth out of the water and now you can take another breath.
5. Return to the resting position and repeat the steps to continue breathing and resting. *It is important to conserve energy, so kicking your legs and moving your arms in a swimming fashion is not part of this survival technique. Try to keep your legs close together and touching each other if the water is cold. This will help keep you warm. (see also, Help position in swimming).
What is the function of the pyloric caeca of a fish?
Also known as digestive caeca or hepatic caeca. Pyloric caeca (outpocketing) extends from the pyloric stomach of the starfish into each of the five arms.
Do star fish have a circulatory system?
No, some invertebrates lack circulatory systems all together such as cnidarians, psudocoelomates and poriferas (sponges). Most of these use tubes that link their internal body to the external environment or they use a gastrovascular cavity. Some have closed circulatory systems such as mollusks (not cephlapods) and anthropods, the pump a fluid that lacks the complete distinction between extracellular fluid and circulating fluid thus this fluid is called Hemolymph.
No, they trap their prey then push out their stomachs and digest their prey.
They eat calms, oysters, mussels, small fish, sea snails , and barnacles.
The predators that eat that are manta rays, some sharks and other bony fishes like to pick them off the bottom of the sea and eat them. Sometimes other larger starfishes since they can eat the starfish by attacking, kill and then eat.
How does the crown of thorn starfish affect coral reefs around Australia?
The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish threatens coral life because it eats coral. This is typically natural, but when overbred, such as on the Great Barrier Reef, they eat the coral, leaving it void of life. Typically the coral regrows itself, but when the starfish is in overabundance, it passes back over the young coral, not giving it time to recooperate. Thus, the coral reefs cannot support life, damaging the ecosystem.
How are starfish adapted to ocean life?
Starfish live in the ocean and are very well adapted to it. They have lived there a long time.
How many arms does a starfish have?
The basket star has 5 branched articulate arms, which is why they look like they have so many appendages.
What is the similarities between starfish and jellyfish?
both live in water
both are marine animals
both are invertibrates
both are boneless
What is the plants method of obtaining food?
Plants use photosynthesis to produce glucose (the 'food' that they use)
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