The starfish drags itself over the shell and places its mouth at the end, extending its long arms downward, literally swallowing part of the shell.
If we take a common starfish and turn it upon its back, we observe that the lower portion is covered with short tentacles, each having a little sucker on the end.
They have a long stem, with rootlike branches to support it, and are capped with what appears like an inverted starfish, and is literally a starfish perched upon a stem.
It was merely a starfish in which each arm branches in two parts, each branching out into two again with the result pictured, a confused mass of arms.
The feet move independently, and the starfish walks much faster than would be imagined.
You’ll find them in the third book from the corner where the large purple starfish is; you can’t mistake it.
The children tore off to the golden gate, rushed through it, and swam to the spot where, unmistakably, the purplish starfish spread its violet rays.
Oh yes,” said Kathleen with enthusiasm, “and the crabs and starfish and prawns and the yellow periwinkles—and all the common objects of the seashore.
The water was clear and deeply green and along the sides of the stream were sea anemones and starfish of the most beautiful forms and the most dazzling colors.
Sea anemones, shell-fish, and starfish of the most vivid hues are as abundant as the corals.
Zeleny has found that, if all five arms of a starfish are removed, each one of them will regenerate more material in a given time than it would have done if it alone had been removed.
Clinging to their rugged sides were starfish of all sizes and colors, varying from white to red, with all the intervening shades.
But this leaves unanswered the question as to how and why the starfish does still repeat after so many millions of years part of the organisation of one of its remote ancestors.
The radiate type is shown by discoid infusoria, by medusæ, by starfish and their allies.
To dismember the body of the starfish by pulling off the finger-like rays does not kill the animal, for not only does each fish produce new rays but each ray will produce a new starfish.
Starfish and sea-urchins of all descriptions are found in immense numbers.
The five-rayed varieties of starfish are universally condemned as insatiable foes of the oyster family, and the oyster cultivators destroy all they can find.
The predatory starfish fastens itself to both valves of the oyster, forces them open, and consumes the fleshy part.
But there are other kinds of starfish here that are pretty and delicate.
A New York merchant is to visit the children's father very soon, and Manuel wants to send this starfish to his little son.
Like so many other sea-animals, the Starfish is a puzzle.
Our Starfish will die, however, unless we carry it to a pool.
Each half grows into a perfect Starfish with five rays complete.
Once in the water our Starfish revives, and makes efforts to right itself.
The Starfish looks limp and lifeless, its five reddish-coloured "arms" are quite still.
Suppose the Starfish wishes to take a walk along the bed of the sea.
Each tiny sucker at once takes hold, more and more of them touch the ground as the ray is turned right side up, and at last the Starfish turns over, and, slowly but surely, glides away.
The Starfish merely presses the mussel into its mouth, cleans out the shells, and throws them away.
The Starfishfolds its rays over its victim, with its mouth against the edge where the shells meet.
We saw how the starfish forces the shells open with the help of its strong tube-feet.
A starfish is not easy to kill, moreover, because if any of the arms are cut off he will grow a new one.
There they would dredge with 'tangles,' a tangle being an iron frame with yards and yards of cotton waste dragging behind in which the spines of sea-urchins and the rough convolutions of starfish easily become entangled.
The starfish lumbers over and commences to feed, other starfish often coming to enjoy the feast.
The starfish crawls along until he finds an oyster which he thinks will suit his taste.
Frequently he would be asked for starfish and it would be necessary to go to a well-known shoal at some little distance, perhaps in the Phalarope or other of the government boats.
This kills the starfish and is a great gain over the old system of picking them out of the tangle by hand.
The snarled cotton waste does no harm to the oyster, but, as it is pulled over the bed, picks up hundreds of starfish and sea-urchins.
This starfish is the largest species on our coasts.
The principal enemies of the oyster are the starfish and the predaceous mollusks /Urosalpinx/ and /Nassa/.
It is the large starfish so often seen in curiosity-shops.
The common starfish of the Pacific coast, from Sitka to San Diego.
This beautiful starfish lives in deep water, but is sometimes thrown up on the beach, and ranges from Cape Cod northward.
The common starfish of the Atlantic coast, from Long Island Sound to Labrador.
The common starfish of the Atlantic coast, from Massachusetts Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
The mouth of the starfish is in the center of the ventral side.
The anatomical system of the starfish is easily traced by cutting off, with scissors, the skin from the dorsal surface of the disk, and also cutting a slit down one of the arms.
The spines of the starfish are caught in the [pg208] tangle, and often hundreds are brought up in one haul and are then killed by steaming.
The Civil Service Rifles were to occupy the Starfish when the 1st Surrey Rifles vacated it.
September, the 1st Surrey Rifles, who were in reserve, were sent out to attack the western half of the Starfish Line and the strong point known as the Cough Drop.
The Boches, however, obliged by withdrawing to the Flers Line, and the 6th and 8th Battalions occupied part of the Cough Drop and the Starfish Line respectively.
Larva of Starfish (Bipinnaria), x 100, seen from the side.
Starfish (k) is already beginning to make its appearance.
Little Starfish swallowed him, and then crawled on to find another as delicious.
Little Starfish swam painfully away from that terrible oyster, leaving half an arm in the shell.
In the more immediate foreground, a number of little starfish squatted about on the miniature strand that shelved down from the rocks, arranged with much care to the general spectacular effect by Nellie, who was most painstaking in the matter.
These dead and gone dried-up old chaps here are of no use; although I wouldn't be surprised if that starfish there could still tell the number of his mess if placed in water.
This species is found on both sides of the Atlantic ocean; it is a common starfish in the West Indies, inhabits the coast of the United States from Florida to South Carolina and is abundant on the shores of the Cape Verde Islands.
A starfish of peculiar design and startling aspect is the Armed Starfish (Nidorella armata), which is an inhabitant of the warm waters of the Isthmus of Panama.
Besides this regular row of spines there are several projecting from the surface of the starfish between the rays.
Another common starfish of the coast of California is the Vermilion Starfish, which may be collected by thousands at San Diego and Monterey.
From six to ten steamers have been catching starfish during the past six months, at an expense of $5,000.
Though hidden away in dark corners of the sea, the starfish is able to see, being quite well supplied with visual organs.
The other arms then turn in a similar manner and the starfish is soon "right side up.
When the shell of an oyster is too large to be swallowed, the starfish actually projects its stomach from its mouth, surrounds the shell with this everted organ, and digests its prey in this position.
One of the largest and handsomest of the starfishes is the Giant Mountain Starfish (Oreaster reticulatus), so common in the waters of the Bahama Islands.
They are, however, so numerous and so well knit, that the skeleton of a dead Starfish presents the complete outward form of the animal.
Those who take an interest in the cultivation of the oyster find them far too familiar--for the starfish is the oyster's deadliest foe, not even excepting man.
As is the case with the ossicles of the Starfish and Sea-Cucumber, the skin lies outside, and the hard particles belong to the middle layer, or mesoderm.
It will be seen that when the animal is fixed by its cirrhi, it stands mouth upwards, so that its position compared with that of the Starfish or Sea-Urchin is upside down.
That, apparently, was the past of the starfish and its cousins.
Will you please inform me to what zoölogical class the starfish belongs, and give some of its habits.
The starfish belongs to the class of echinoderms, and the order asterioids.
Scientific analysis cannot show us the difference between the germ cell of a starfish and the germ cell of a man; and yet think of what a world of difference is hidden in those microscopic germs!
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