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Ochre Star

Common Name: Ochre Star

Scientific Name: Pisaster ochraceus

Order: Echinodermata

Range: Alaska to Baja California

Diet: Mostly eats mussels but also chitons, limpets, snails, barnacles, echinoids, and decapod crustacean

Facts: 1. Live at least 4 to 6 years, but could live up to 20 years 2. Females have orange gonads and males have white gonads 3. During the maturation of the gonads, the gonads can account for 40% of the star fish weight

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