crown-of-thorns
Acanthaster planci latin

Outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) have also reduced coral populations.

The Crown-of-thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a type of sea star.

C. tritonis is one of the few animals that feeds on the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci.

The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a large nocturnal sea star that preys upon coral polyps.

See Acanthaster planci for a treatment of the status of Acanthaster ellisii.

It was found burrowing in different parts of the oral disc of Acanthaster planci, the crown of thorns sea star.

Some damage to the corals of this atoll caused by Acanthaster planci crown-of-thorns starfish was observed in the 1990s.

Large unidentified polyps of this genus feed on the crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci and may help control the crown-of-thorns population.

Eastern reefs were also affected by the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (COTS) in 1998.

Recently, Blake concluded from comparative morphology studies of Acanthaster planci that it has strong similarities with various members of the Oreasteridae.

The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), seems to preferentially feed on corals of the genus Montipora.

It feeds on coral tissue and mucus, and defends the corals from predators, like the coral-eating starfish Acanthaster planci.

A small shrimp, the painted shrimp Hymenocera picta, a general predator of starfish, has been found to prey on Acanthaster planci at some locations.

The tropical Crown of Thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) are voracious predators of coral throughout the Indo-Pacific region.

Acanthaster planci has a long history in the scientific literature with great confusion in the generic and species names from the outset, with a long list of complex synonymy.

In the late 1970s, millions of Acanthaster planci or crown-of-thorns starfish (alamea), a coral eating animal, ate their way through Tutuila's reefs.

In a few years, the Crown of Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, is said to have decimated the corals of the Great Barrier Reef and of many island groups.

The titan triggerfish has a varied diet based on different benthic organisms like molluscs, hard coral tips, echinoderms (likes also the Acanthaster planci) and crustaceans and tube worms.

Acanthaster planci, commonly known as the crown-of-thorns starfish, is a large, multiple-armed starfish (or seastar) that usually preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia).

The larvae were reared according to the methods employed for A. planci and developed through the typical larval stages of bipinaria and brachiolaria (see Life-cycle of Acanthaster planci).

There are, however, a small number of predatory species perhaps the most well known being the Crown of Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci ) which has caused massive damage to many of the world's reefs.

Like Acanthaster planci, however, its distinctive traits include being disc-shaped, multi-armed with multiple madreporites (see Starfish), flexible, prehensile and densely spined, and having a large ratio of stomach surface to body mass.

Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is the major predator of the reefs, as it preys upon coral polyps by climbing onto them, extruding its stomach over them, and releasing digestive enzymes to absorb the liquefied tissue.

On the Great Barrier Reef, an unexplained increase in the numbers of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), which graze on living coral tissue, has had considerable impact on coral mortality and coal reef biodiversity.

The tropical crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious predator of coral throughout the Indo-Pacific region, and the northern Pacific sea star is considered to be one of the world's 100 worst invasive species.