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Star Fish

A better name for the starfish would be seastar, since it lives in the sea, and is shaped like a star and especially because it is NOT a fish.
Its body consists of a central disc surrounded by armlike extensions. Most species have 5 of these arms but some have as many as 50.
Rows of sucker tubes on the underside of the arms enable the animal to move along the sea floor and to catch its prey — mainly shelled animals such as mussels, clams and oysters. The prey is pushed into the mouth which is in the centre of the underside of the body. Sometimes it might catch an oyster that is too big to swallow.

Then it does a strange thing: it prises open the two halves of the oyster's shell with its arms, and bringing out its own stomach through its mouth, forces it into the crack between the two halves.The stomach surrounds the soft body of the oyster and digests it.
Starfish are remarkable for their ability to regrow lost body parts. Even if half its body is destroyed it can re-grow the lost part. Some species can re-grow a whole new body from a single arm that has been cut away.

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Last updated on :8/11/2004

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