Crown-Of-Thorns Enhance Their Growth by Switching Diets Early (IMAGE)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

Crown-Of-Thorns Enhance Their Growth by Switching Diets Early

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Early stage herbivorous crown-of-thorns starfish camouflaged against the coralline algae that it has been feeding on, with a recent feeding scar directly adjacent.

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Daniel J. Schultz

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