Green Slender Sea Star

Leptasterias littoralis

Classification

Class: Asteroidea
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae

Leptasterias is a genus of starfish in the family Asteriidae. Members of this genus are characterised by having six arms although five-armed specimens sometimes occur. L.

Distribution

Green Slender Sea Star — (c) Ian Manning, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ian Manning · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Canada · 192United States of America · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ian Manning, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ian Manning · CC-BY DescriptionLeptasterias, Wikipedia contributors

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