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English
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Star of Honduras
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| Description: Descripción: Species of leveled body, of to 60 cm of diameter and of reddish or orange coloured coloration by its aboral side. Relatively small disk. Seven quite long, narrow arms, finished in tip and very fragile. Very voracious species, is fed of hedgehogs and other equinodermus and more seldom of bivalves. |
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Distribution: Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In Calvín, J.C. et Al., 1989
and 1998 it is quoted in Island of the Friar.
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Habitat: Typical species of the lower infralittoral and circalittoral, where
it appears in funds of gravel, sand or mud.
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Report about the reasons of the risk: Its presence in the bottoms of the regions is increasingly more scarce, what does it very vulnerable to the extraction in the networks of fishing or as ornamental trophy by the divers. |
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Category IUCN: LC
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