Pisaster brevispinus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Forcipulatida
- Family
- Asteriidae
- Genus
- Pisaster
- Species
- Pisaster brevispinus
- Scientific Name
- Pisaster brevispinus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pisaster brevispinus
Pisaster brevispinus, commonly called the pink sea star, giant pink sea star, or short-spined sea star, is a species of sea star in the northeast Pacific Ocean. It was first described to science by William Stimson in 1857. The type specimen was collected on a sandy bottom, 10 fathoms (18 m) deep, near the mouth of San Francisco Bay.
...Pisaster brevispinus in languages:
- English
- Giant Pink Sea Star
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