#echinasteridae

[dendroica]

A red starfish on a yellow cluster anemone in the Mediterranean Sea, near La Ciotat, south-eastern France

Photograph: Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[todropscience]

This colorful asteroids is the first  new sea star species of 2017!!! yayyy

Called Henricia djakonovi, were collected by russian researchers in shallow waters of Rudnaya bays at water temperature of 2–6 ◦C in the Sea of Japan during 2015–2016, but described this year in the journal PeerJ

Reference: Chichvarkhin. 2017.  Henricia djakonovi sp. nov. (Echinodermata, Echinasteridae): a new sea star species from the Sea of Japan. PeerJ  

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Echinaster sepositus

Sometimes known as the "Red Starfish", Echinaster sepositus is a species of Echinasterid sea star which occurs along the coasts of western Europe, mainly France. Echinaster sepositus is typically seen on rocky, muddy, or sandy bottoms, and commonly among eel-grass where it will feed on sessile invertebrates. 

Classification

Animalia-Echinodermata-Asteroidea-Spinulosida-Echinasteridae-Echinaster-E. sepositus

Image: Tato Grasso

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Pacific Blood Star (Henricia leviuscula)

...a species of Echinasterid sea star which is distributed along the Pacific coast of North America, ranging from Alaska to Baja California. Like other sea stars H. leviuscula inhabits the intertidal zone where it feeds mainly on sponges, bryozoans, and small plankton.  They often have a commensal scaleworm Arctonoe vittata associated with them. 

Classification

Animalia-Echinodermata-Asteroidea-Spinulosidae-Leptognathina-Echinasteridae-Henricia-H. leviuscula

Image: Medtrails