Animalia > Echinodermata > Asteroidea > Valvatida > Oreasteridae > Oreaster > Oreaster reticulatus

Oreaster reticulatus (cushioned star; red cushion sea star)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Oreaster reticulatus, commonly known as the red cushion sea star or the West Indian sea star, is a species of marine invertebrate, a starfish in the family Oreasteridae. It is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
View Wikipedia Record: Oreaster reticulatus

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coralliophila galea (helmet coralsnail)1

Predators

Lactophrys bicaudalis (Trunkfish)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1SPONGE PREDATORS MAY DETERMINE DIFFERENCES IN SPONGE FAUNA BETWEEN TWO SETS OF MANGROVE CAYS, BELIZE BARRIER REEF, JANIE L. WULFF, ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 477, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 2000
2Jorrit 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.
3Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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