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Pteraster tesselatus (cushion star)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pteraster tesselatus, the slime star or cushion star, is a species of starfish in the family Pterasteridae found in the North Pacific.
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Infraspecies

Pteraster tesselatus arcuatus
Pteraster tesselatus glomus
Pteraster tesselatus tesselatus

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Coastal

Prey / Diet

Aphrocallistes vastus (Cloud sponge)[2]
Halichondria panicea (Breadcrumb Sponge)[3]
Rhabdocalyptus dawsoni[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2The dorid nudibranchs Peltodoris lentiginosa and Archidoris odhneri as predators of glass sponges, Jackson W.F. Chu and Sally P. Leys, Invertebrate Biology 131(2): 75–81 (2012)
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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