21 нояб. 2023 г. · Crown-of-thorns sea stars are carnivorous predators that feast on corals and are hard to keep in check—but conservationists are fighting back.

5 апр. 2023 г. · The red decorator crab—or Schizophrys aspera—was by far the most consistent predator consuming COTS in 89% of the feeding trials ...

2 нояб. 2020 г. · Along with climate change, one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef is the crown-of-thorns starfish, a voracious coral predator ...

10 июн. 2020 г. · The only well-known predator of adult crown-of-thorns starfish was the Pacific triton, a giant sea snail that hunts by injecting venom. Dozens ...

The small painted shrimp Hymenocera picta, a general predator of starfish, has been found to prey on A. planci at some locations. A polychaete worm, ... Taxonomy · Biology · Lifecycle · Ecology

14 апр. 2021 г. · Crown-of-thorns starfish are marine invertebrates that feed on coral, with each starfish eating up to 10 square metres a year.

19 окт. 2023 г. · These starfish then develop into carnivorous predators that devour reefs just as they begin to regrow. Juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish.

No starfish remains have been found in the stomachs of large predator fish on coral reefs · Triton shells (which can eat starfish) are heavily harvested for ...

8 дек. 2021 г. · Reef fish, such as emperors, tropical snappers, and rockcods, help keep numbers of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish in check on the Great Barrier Reef.