Royal Sea Star
Astropecten articulatus
A royal sea star lives on sandy and muddy bottoms of the western Atlantic, especially from the southeastern United States through the Gulf of Mexico. It creeps slowly over the seafloor on tube feet, often partly burying itself in sediment. Its diet is mainly small bivalves and other invertebrates, which it can open and digest by extending its stomach. Unlike many familiar sea stars, it has a neat row of large marginal plates that give its arms a stiff, armored outline.
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- Royal Sea Star