Starfish
- Description
- This starfish is from the Sladen collection. It was collected in the bay of Naples in Italy, probably in the late 1800s while Sladen was studying the live Echinoderms at the Zoological Station in Naples.
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/A/39
- Collection Class
- Echinoderms
- Common Name
- starfish
- Simple Name
- starfish
- Full Name
- ECHINODERMATA; STELLEROIDEA; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Ophidiasteridae; Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck)
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Family Group
- Collection County
- Bay of Naples
- Collection Country
- Italy
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ECHINODERMATA
- Family
- OPHIDIASTERIDAE
- Genus
- Ophidiaster
- Species
- ophidianus
