Diet Overlap

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Haematopus ostralegus (Eurasian Oystercatcher)

Common Diet

Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)

Common Habitat

Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion
North Norfolk Coast
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol
Taynish and Knapdale Woods

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
♦ 2Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Eklöf, Anna (2018), Data from: Feeding environment and other traits shape species' roles in marine food webs, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1mv20r6