🦋 Family

Heliasteridae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Echinodermata › Asteroidea › Forcipulatida › Heliasteridae

Heliaster cumingi is a starfish species in the Heliasteridae family found in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California to the Galápagos.

Heliaster kubiniji, the gulf sun star, is an eastern Pacific sea star with arm counts that increase as it grows.

Heliaster helianthus is a multi-armed South American Pacific starfish preyed on by the starfish Meyenaster gelatinosus.

Related Families

Asteriidae 20 species Stichasteridae 2 species

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