-+Mottled+Star

While my marine bio class was exploring the beach, I researched the mottled star fish, on its natural habitat. For the most part I found them stuck to the bottoms of rock as the tide went out. In the span of four hours i saw three different Mottled stars. It is easy to differ them from other stars they are orange and have white speckle, most likely have five arms and are usually 28cm. Sea stars are in phylum Echinodermata and in class Asteroidea, these are there classifications. Sea stars are defined mostly as having arms, a central disc and ,tube feet. the Sea stars attach to the rocks by using there tube feet, they have thousands of the, on the back of there arms. Sea stars eat most smaller life forms as in clams, which they use there tube feet to open the shells with. another thing that sets them apart is the fact that they have two stomachs. One stomach is used for digestion, and the second stomach can be extended outward to engulf and digest prey.

picture taken by kenna

-kenna