Sea star - Pycnopodia helianthoides
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Description: This sea star may have up to 27 arms. It gets larger than this one, but the gulls eat the arms and they are easy prey on very low tides. Date: 22 December 2007, 16:38. Source: Pycnopodia helianthoides. Author: Jerry Kirkhart from Los Osos, Calif.
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- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
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- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa ("Starfish, brittle stars, and basket stars")
- Asteroidea (sea stars)
- Forcipulatacea
- Forcipulatida
- Asteriidae
- Pycnopodiinae
- Pycnopodia
- Pycnopodia helianthoides (Sunflower star)
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