Publication Date
July 2002
Abstract
For a marine biologist strolling along the eastern coast of South America, finding some sea stars (popularly called starfish, and technically members of the class Asteroidea of the phylum Echinodermata) is not all that unusual. However, when closer inspection reveals the sea stars to be ones that are also found on the shores of the western coast of Africa, the marine biologist now faces an interesting question: How did these sea stars come to be so far from home?
Originally published in Consortiumand used with permission.
Disciplines
Biology | Physiology
Recommended Citation
Jaeckle, William and Kehle, Paul, "A Long Way From Home: Transatlantic Sea Star Migration" (2002). Scholarship. 22.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bio_scholarship/22