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Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.

Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.
Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.
Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.
Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.
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Rioux, Terrence
Starfish feeding on a bed of mussels.
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04/18/2006
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Caption from 2001 WHOI wall calendar:
These starfish were found just off the WHOI pier feeding on a bed of mussels.
Image of The Day caption:
A constellation of starfish congregates under the WHOI Pier in the late 1980s. Blue mussels, a favorite food of starfish, sometimes settle and grow in huge colonies on the pier. When the mussels grow large enough, clumps of them fall to the bottom?attracting starfish, which make short work of the bounty. According to Terry Rioux, who oversaw the WHOI diving program for 30 years and often dove under the pier, the mussels were abundant for a few years, then scarce, then abundant again.
Photo by Terry Rioux
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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