Talk:Stylasterias

A fact from Stylasterias appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 September 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the morning sun star's (pictured) predatory attacks on other starfish are not always successful, as the velcro star and the rainbow star fight back and the slime star emits repellent mucus?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Solaster dawsoni, Stylasterias, Orthasterias, Pteraster tesselatus.

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velcro?[edit]

could we please get info re when it was named? velcro is a recent word. newly discovered creature? just nicknamed? Cramyourspam (talk) 16:15, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]