Diet Overlap

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Calidris canutus (Red Knot)

Common Diet

Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)

Common Habitat

Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
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
2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979