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Anseropoda placenta (Pennant 1777)

Anseropoda placenta

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Anseropoda placenta, also called the goose foot starfish,[2] is a species of sea star in the family Asterinidae.[3]

Description

Anseropoda placenta is up to 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter. It's a very thin, leaflike, flat sea star with short webbed arms. Its specific name placenta refers to a kind of flat cake. The aboral surface (top) has a texture of small plates; it is white with five radiating red lines, one down the centre of each arm.[4]

Distribution

Most common in the Irish Sea and English Channel, and is more rarely found off Scotland.[5] It is in rapid decline in Northern Ireland due to bottom fishing.[6]

Environment

Anseropoda placenta is sublittoral, typically living at 20–40 m (66–131 ft) depth, in muddy sand or muddy gravel; it has been found as deep as 500 m (1,600 ft).[4][7]

Behaviour

Anseropoda placenta produces large eggs in the summer.[5] It feeds on benthic molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms.[7]

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Anseropoda placenta: Brief Summary

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Anseropoda placenta, also called the goose foot starfish, is a species of sea star in the family Asterinidae.

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Breeding

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Large eggs. Summer

Reference

7. Blue Planet Biomes (May, 2009) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/andean_condor.htm

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Distribution

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In depths of 10 to 500 m, on gravel, sand, mud and ocassionally rock; English Channel, Irish Sea, rare off western coasts as far north as Shetland, and very rare off the northeast coast

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7. Blue Planet Biomes (May, 2009) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/andean_condor.htm

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