Cortez starfish
Pentaceraster cumingi📇 Common Name
Cortez starfish
🔬 Scientific Name
Pentaceraster cumingi
🐟 Family
Oreasteridae
🏋️♀️ Weight
Average weight is around 325 grams
Pacific
Ocean
📏 Length
maximum size: 20 cm
🧜♂️ Habitat
Common in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Inhabitants of coral and rocky reefs in depths ranging from 0-10 meters.
🥙 Diet
Primarily feeds by scavenging. The diet consists of seagrass, microscopic organisms, and ocean-floor algae. Occasionally pray on other sea stars as well.
⛽️ Fact
They can regenerate missing limbs, but it takes them up to one year for the limb to reach full body size
📍In Bahía Solano
expected to see most of the year
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