MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075119.TIF
A common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus is exposed at low tide in a rich intertidal zone on Moser Island in Alaska's Southeast. It normally has nine or ten arms but can have many more. They have a piny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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alaska, animals, boots, color image, common sunstar fish, day, echinoderms, geography, getty, image type, legs, low tide, model released photography, moser island, mosses, national forests (alaska), north america, one animal, one person, outdoors, photography, plants, shorelines, starfish, sun star starfish, tides, tongass national forest, united states, water
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
