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Crown-of-thorns Sea Stars
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Crown-of-thorns Sea Stars

Acanthaster

Acanthaster is a small genus of large and venomous starfish placed in its own family, Acanthasteridae. Its members are known as crown-of-thorns starfish.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pacific Ocean Crown-of-Thorns

speciesAcanthaster solaris

Long-spined Crown-of-Thorns

speciesAcanthaster planci

Western Indian Ocean crown-of-thorns

speciesAcanthaster mauritiensis

Acanthaster ellisii

speciesAcanthaster ellisii

Red Sea crown-of-thorns

speciesAcanthaster benziei

Short-spined Crown-of-Thorns

speciesAcanthaster brevispinus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50917.