Natural History Studies on the Starfish Pisaster Oschraceus (Brandt, 1835) in the Monterey Bay Area |
Contents
B PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS | 23 |
THE DISTRIBUTION OF PISASTER OCIRACEUS | 49 |
FOOD AND FEEDING IN PISASTER OCHRACEUS | 52 |
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abundance Acmaea adductor muscles animals aquaria aquarium Asterias rubens attached Balanus glandula barnacles bivalve bivalve molluscs black abalone boring mechanism Bullock byssus region byssus threads California cardiac stomach closed closure crevices directly to bivalve experiments exposed exposure field fish gape gastropods grams granite growth habitat Haliotis cracherodii Hewatt Hopkins Marine Station intertidal laboratory observations laboratory tanks large starfish limpets MacGinitie mantle measured minutes molluscs Monterey Bay MUSSEL LENGTH Mussel Point Mytilus californianus opening bivalves opening pull oyster pelta Phylum Pisaster ochraceus Pismo clam placed predator present prey pull exerted reactions removed responses rock Schiemenz scutum sea star seawater shell snail soft species starfish arm starfish attack starfish feeding starfish pull starfish stomach stimulus Strongylocentrotus purpuratus study areas substance substrate suggested Table Tegula Tegula funebralis temperature tests Tetraclita squamosa rubescens Thais emarginata tide pool tightly tube feet tube foot weight wire