Diet Overlap

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Somateria mollissima (Common Eider)

Common Diet

Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)

Common Habitat

Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Isle of May
Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh Reefs
Moray Firth
North Norfolk Coast
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast

Attributes / relations provided by
1A seventeen-year study of the rose star Crossaster papposus population in a coastal bay in southeast Alaska, H. R. Carlson and C. A. Pfister, Marine Biology (1999) 133: 223-230
2Energy flow of a boreal intertidal ecosystem, the Sylt-Rømø Bight, Dan Baird, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 279: 45–61, 2004