Starchoice....

[christyf5]

mmmmmm....deeeetriiiiitus.........

[christyf5]

Hey I think I found it in my Inverts book by Julian Sprung. Theres a pic of one that looks just like it. Echinaster echinophorus from the carribean?? Eats sponges, microalgae. I'll email the page to you Em.

C

[EmilyB]

I pulled the echinaster thing a while back. someone told me they wouldn't be collected for our area.

The echinaster has much longer arms.

keep looking please

[christyf5]

aww nuts

thats the only thing remotely close in my book

[EmilyB]

BTW, I have tons of sponges. It doesn't eat sponge.

[EmilyB]

Anything really worth having isn't easy.... I'm gonna email the guy one more time. I don't know how conversant he is with his suppliers...

[One_Divided]

nice star, but how many channels does it give you?

[Dorkel Marine 1]

if you find anything out on its name and it being shipped please lets us coast guys know. I would be most interested in purchasing one. Or two.

George Muller

[Delphinus]

I think I saw marinedepotlive.com was selling them as potentially part of a cleaner crew, you'd get an orange knobby OR a red fromia. But alas, still no latin name for the orange knobby..
http://www.marinedepotlive.com/tccb304.html

Actually, I keep finding several pages with this starfish pictured with pleas of "If anyone knows the latin name of this starfish please let us know .... "

Would this be worthwhile posing the ID question to say, Dr. Ron?

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by christyf5

mmmmmm....deeeetriiiiitus.........

I am wondering if there is a different definition of Detritus than the one the Oxford dictionary uses. It says that detritus is matter formed by detrition such as gravel, silt, debris. Detrition is defined as wearing away by rubbing. .
Then again Oxford is Brtish so it might have a different meaning than the American dictionaries.