MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075120.jpg
A young girl examines a common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus that is exposed at low tide on Moser Island. They normally grow nine or ten arms but can have many more. They have a spiny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones living in the intertidal zone in Alaska's Southeast.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
- Image Size
- 4368x2912 / 3.2MB
- Keywords
-
alaska, animals, background people, color image, common sunstar fish, crossaster papposus, day, echinoderms, geography, getty, girl only, image type, low tide, model released photography, moser island, mosses, national forests (alaska), north america, one animal, one person, outdoors, photography, plants, pre-adolescent, shorelines, starfish, sun star starfish, tides, tongass national forest, touching, united states, water
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
