Talk:Sunflower sea star

message: I added what information I could gleen from natural history and parks websites to at least expand this a bit. Wildhartlivie (talk) 14:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Started

message: The name for this species is "sunflower starfish", the term sea star is an innovation by some american aquaria, and not used in common or academic life.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.52.111 (talk) 22:38, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: I clarified the section on reproduction, to indicate that when the larvae are free-floating, that is the planktonic stage. I also made some minor grammatical changes. -KS Keturys (talk) 06:14, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Larval stage 

message: This seastar, which was ubiquitous on the tidelands of my youth, has disappeared completely from Puget Sound, unless a few individuals survive in very deep water. The explosion of leather stars (Dermasterias imbricata), a preferred Pycnopodia prey species, on beaches and in shallow water, is further evidence that these stars no longer exist here. As I understand it, this is one of the species driven to extinction throughout much of its former range by climate disruption (via seastar wasting disease). Seems like this deserves a paragraph of its own here. Laodah 19:06, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a paragraph in the distribution section. Perhaps it might also deserve attention in the intro.Magic1million (talk) 22:31, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Extinction

message: I noticed that sources 3 and 10 are news articles and do not provide any references about where they got their information. Instead, perhaps these could be replaced with the peer-reviewed article: "Demography, Ecology, and Management of Sea Star Populations: Introduction to a Special Issue in The Biological Bulletin" by Ciemon F. Caballes and Maria Byrne. I also noticed that the link to source 4 does not work anymore, source 5 can be updated, and source 6 still requires a link. Tgtg1234 (talk) 23:39, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: the dates for the declination of the sea star are stated as 2013-2015 when most of the research I have read correlates more towards 2013-2017 would this be an appropriate change?--TobiTimothee (talk) 01:10, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of declination 

message: This image is mislabeled as a sunflower star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_sea_star#/media/File:Olympic_Coast_National_Marine_Sanctuary_2010_Pycnopodia_helianthoides.jpg
It is featured on the main wiki page for sunflower starsand should be removed from there.
It is definitely not a sunflower star (central disk too small relative to too-slender arms; rosette array and appearance on arms not like in sunflower stars, etc).
I believe this is Rathbunaster californicus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathbunaster
Jason Hodin, Ph.D.
Friday Harbor Labs of UW
Friday Harbor WA USA
larvador(at)uw(dot)edu 174.61.170.172 (talk) 19:28, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The image is identified as a sunflower starfish by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who posted the original image that we copied. Meters (talk) 19:37, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

text: You may be correct, but we need more than an IP's say so. The image is still up on the NOAA's Flickr photo library page. We have no way of knowing that you really are who you claim to be, and  I'll note that your IP is coming from the East Coast, not the West Coast. Meters (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  image on sunflower star page is not a sunflower star