Animalia > Echinodermata > Asteroidea > Forcipulatida > Asteriidae > Asterias > Asterias forbesi

Asterias forbesi (Forbes' sea star)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Asterias forbesi, commonly known as Forbes sea star, is a species of starfish in the family Asteriidae. It is found in shallow waters in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Coastal

Prey / Diet

Spisula solidissima (Surf clam)[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
♦ 2Additive interactions between the moon snail Euspira heros and the sea star Asterias forbesi, two predators of the surfclam Spisula solidissima, Eric J. Weissberger, Oecologia (1999) 119:461-466
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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