Extra! Solaster feeding caught forever in the museum!

A cool find that a student (Eric T.) fr. American U. found while working on a project.. Solaster endeca with the arm from what looks like Asterias rubens

 Here is the predator alive...

and the prey (where the arm comes from)


Solaster is one of the few starfish which is known to feed primarily (at least in some species) on OTHER starfish!  Here was something I wrote awhile back on the Pacific Solaster dawsoni...


and here is a nice pic of the North Pacific S. dawsoni feeding on Hippasteria

It is so fearsome that EVEN the sunflower star Pycnopodia RUNS from it!

and here's a nice bit about when starfish are eating and uh... overreach...

NOM! NOM! NOM!