Seastars of Alaska

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Leather Star Purple Orange Star Mottled Star Giant Star Western Star Arctic Star Dermasterias imbricata Asterias amurensis Evasterias trochelli Evasterias echinosoma Evasterias retifera Leptasterias arctica

Aleutian Star Rough Skirted Star Greenland Star Scarlet Six-Rayed Star Kamchatka six-rayed star Enigmatic six-rayed star Leptasterias hylodes Leptasterias stolocantha Leptasterias groenlandica Leptastarias leptodoma Leptasterias camtschatica Leptasterias sp. A

Lady Katherine’s six-rayed Star Coe’s Six-Rayed Star Polar Six-Rayed star Giant Aleutian Six-Rayed Star Odd Rayed Star Sunflower Star Leptasterias katharinae Leptasterias coei Leptasterias polaris Leptasterias truculenta Stephanasterias albula Pycnopodia helianthoides

Rainbow Star Giant Pink Star Black spined star Fish eating star Alaskan Star Mariana’s Is. Star Orthasterias koehleri Pisaster brevispinus Lethasterias nanimensis Stylasterias forreri Tarsaster alaskanus Ampheraster marianus

Deep Sea Sun Flower Star Bat Star Arctic Sand Star Pacific Sand Star Pentagonal Sand Star Northern Sand Star Rathbunaster californicus Asterina miniata Leptychaster arcticus Leptychaster pacificus Leptychaster anomalus Dipsacaster borealis

Extraordinary Sand Star Aleutian Fragile Star Needle-Spined Fragile Star Variable Fragile Star Pedicillate Fragile Star Brisingid Dipsacaster eximius Cheiraster sp. A Nearchaster aciculosus Nearchaster variabilis Nearchaster pedicellaris Brisingidae

Mud Star Sand Star Fisher’s Myxasterid Soft Orange Star Evermann’s Star Giant Slimy Star Ctenodiscus crispatus Luidia foliolata Asthenactis fisheri Pedicellaster magister Zoroaster evermani Myxoderma sacculatum

U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | National Marine Fisheries Service PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROGER CLARK. Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington Additional funding provided by the North Pacific Research Board. Seastars of Alaska

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Arctic Cookie Star Orange Cookie Star Stellate Cookie Star Red Cookie Star Deep-Sea Cookie Star Grainy White Cookie Star Ceramaster arcticus Ceramaster patagonicus Ceramaster stellatus Ceramaster japonicus Ceramaster clarkii Cladaster alascanus

Southern Spiny Star California Spiny Star Armored Spiny Star kurile Spiny Star Aleutian Spiny Star Heath’s Spiny Star Hippasteria spinosa Hippasteria californica Hippasteria armata Hippasteria kurilensis Hippasteria aleutica Hippasteria heathi

Southeast Alaskan Spiny Star Pale Spiny Star Commander Spiny Star Pebbly Star Swift’s Star Delicate Star Hippasteria sp. E Hippasteria sp. B Hippasteria sp. D Cryptopeltaster lepidonotus Gephyreaster swifti Mediaster tenellus

Aleutian Scarlet Star Northern ScarletStar Giant Brown Pseudarchaster Vermillion Star Tesselated Slime Star Northern Slime Star Pseudarchaster alascensis Pseudarchaster parelli Pseudarchaster dissonus Mediaster aequalis Pteraster tesselatus Pteraster sp. A

Obscure Cushion Star Eight-Rayed Cushion Star Wrinkled Cushion Star Jordan’s Cushion Star Prickly Cushion Star Bering Deep-Sea Pteraster Pteraster obscurus Pteraster octaster Pteraster militaris Pteraster jordani Pteraster marsippus Pteraster sp.

Wills’ Cushion Star Orange Cushion Star Rough Cushion Star Spiny Orange Cushion Star Orange Sided Cushion Star Zeus’ Shield Star Pteraster willis Pteraster pulvillus Pteraster temnochiton Pteraster sp. E Pteraster sp. B Pteraster sp. D

Pincushion Star Pancake Star Fuzzy Star White Star Sea Star Unident Sea Star Unident Diplopteraster multipes Hymenaster sp. Peribolaster biserialis Anteliaster nannodes Unknown Family/Genus Unknown Family/Genus

U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | National Marine Fisheries Service PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROGER CLARK. Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington Additional funding provided by the North Pacific Research Board. Seastars of Alaska

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Morning Sun Star Striped Sun Star Northern Sun Star White Sun Star Remarkable Sun Star Bering Sun Star Solaster dawsoni Solaster stimpsoni Solaster endeca Solaster hypothrissus Solaster sp. A Solaster sp. F

Kessler’s Sun Star Beautiful Sun Star Serpent Sun Star Brooding Sun Star Ocher Sun Star Canonball Sun Star Solaster sp. E Solaster spectabilis Solaster sp. D Solaster hexactis Solaster sp. G Heterozonias alternatus

Deep Sea Sun Star Common Rose Star White Rose Star Pink Rose Star Pink Crested Star Crested Star Crossaster borealis Crossaster papposus Crossaster sp. A Crossaster sp. B Lophaster furcilliger Lophaster vexator

Slender Crested Star Vesteraalen’s Star Sandpaper Henricia Weak-Meshed Henricia Blood Star Spiny Henricia Lophaster sp. A Lophaster sp. B Henricia aspera Henricia asthenactis Henricia sp. Henricia multispina

Feder’s Henricia Fat Henricia Lined Blood Star Mottled Henricia Bering Henricia Fuzzy Henricia Aleutihenricia federi Henricia tumida Henricia sp. A Henricia sp. C or B Henricia beringiania Henricia sp. D

Short-Spined Henricia White Henricia Slender Pale Henricia Long-Spined Henricia Aleutian Long-Spined Henricia Fisher’s Toothed Henricia Henricia dyscrita Aleutihenricia derjugini Henricia sp. E Henricia longispina Henricia longispina aleutica Odontohenricia fisheri

Violet Toothed Henricia Pale toothed Henricia Golden Toothed Henricia Purple Toothed Henricia Giant Toothed Henricia Thorny Star Odontohenricia sp. A Odontohenricia ahearnae Odontohenricia sp. C Odontohenricia violacea Odontohenricia sp. E Poraniopsis inflata

U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | National Marine Fisheries Service PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROGER CLARK. Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington Additional funding provided by the North Pacific Research Board.