Star Fish

Facts Of Starfish 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Scientific Name: Protoreaster Nodosus
Type: Asteroidea
Diet: Omnivore
Size: 5-20cm (2-20in)
Weight: 0.1-6kg (0.2-13lbs)
Top Speed: 12.8km/h (8mph)
Lifespan:  3-27 years
Lifestyle:   Solitary
Conservation Status: Threatened
Colour:  Red, Brown, Blue
Skin Type: Rough
Favourite Food: Crustaceans
Habitat: Shallow to deeper coastal waters
Average Litter Size: 1,000,000
Main Prey: Crustaceans, Worms, Sea Urchins
Predators: Fish, Rays, Sharks
Special Features: Long arms and suckers on their feet


The starfish (usually as an ocean star) is for the most part found with 5 arms that are connected to a focal circle. This focal plate is the movement focal point of the starfish and furthermore contains the mouth of the starfish. The starfish sustains on shellfish and mollusks, the 2 stomachs of the starfish assisting with the processing of complex living beings. The starfish utilizes one stomach to start the assimilation of the sustenance, and the other stomach to extend outwards and overwhelm their prey. Starfish can be found in the seas all around the globe. Because of the moderate moving nature of the starfish, the starfish is gone after by numerous creature predators including fish, crabs, beams, sharks, people and fowls when the starfish are washed onto the shore. The starfish has the fantastic capacity to recover itself into another starfish, with a solitary lost arm connected to a bit of the focal starfish body circle.

Starfish don't depend on a jointed, mobile skeleton for help and development (in spite of the fact that starfish are as yet secured by their skeleton), yet rather have a pressure driven water vascular framework that guides the starfish in development. The water vascular arrangement of the starfish has numerous projections called tube feet on the ventral face of the starfish's arms which work in development and help with encouraging. Starfish can change their sex when it is helpful to them.

The female starfish is competent is discharging more than 2 million eggs at any one time, in spite of the fact that the normal measure of eggs that the female starfish discharges is more like 1 million. The eggs discharged by the female starfish are then treated by the male starfish and the prepared eggs form into hatchlings which can swim about. Starfish hatchlings swim for around three weeks previously settling and starting transformation into the more typical appearance of the starfish. The starfish is today thought to be an undermined types of creature mostly because of environment misfortune and contamination which are radically diminishing the starfish populaces.