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Starfish

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Field Notes

Description:

Purple and orange

Habitat:

Ocean

Notes:

Photo taken at Cannon Beach near Portland, OR

Species ID Suggestions

Ochre Sea Star

Pisaster ochraceus

Reference Link
Skylaar
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Comments (8)
peter
Thanks for updating :)
peter
Yes, please make sure your spotting locations are as accurate as possible. This helps retain a high level of data quality that we're collecting as a community.
Louisiana Belle
This was taken at Cannon Beach outside of Portland, OR. It was pretty amazing. I had never seen starfish that big.
peter
Wow was this in an aquarium?
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PublishedOctober 23, 2010

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