- The crown-of-thorns
starfish (frequently
abbreviated to COTS),
Acanthaster planci, is a
large starfish that
preys upon hard, or stony,
coral polyps (Scleractinia)...
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Acanthaster is a
bitypic genus of
large and
venomous starfish placed in its own family, Acanthasteridae. Its two
members are
known as crown-of-thorns...
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Acanthaster brevispinus, the short-spined crown-of-thorns starfish, is one of the two
members of the
starfish genus Acanthaster,
along with the much better-known...
- also been used to
control outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns sea star (
Acanthaster planci),
which is a
threat to
coral reefs.
Single injections lead to...
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Acacia acanthaster is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Fabaceae and is
endemic to the south-west of
Western Australia. It is a rigid, densely-branched...
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keystone species concept in ecology. The
tropical crown-of-thorns
starfish (
Acanthaster planci) is a
voracious predator of
coral throughout the Indo-Pacific...
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Pedicellaria of
Acanthaster planci...
- Reef
Research Centre Technical Report No. 32 – Crown-of-thorns starfish(
Acanthaster planci) in the
central Great Barrier Reef region.
Results of fine-scale...
- an
unexplained increase in the
numbers of crown-of-thorns
starfish (
Acanthaster planci),
which graze on
living coral tissue, has
greatly increased coral...
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which have been
compared to
rainforest cover. Crown-of-thorns
starfish (
Acanthaster planci) is the
major predator of the reefs, as it
preys upon
coral polyps...
