Tropical coral reefs are among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth. In addition to climate change, coral-eating crown-of-thorns sea stars (Acanthaster spp.) pose one of the biggest threats in ...

New research has been published in Marine Biology on the long term population dynamics of the Crown-of- Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci. It is one of the most long term and extensive surveys of ...

PARIS: The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is known to us as the crown-of-thorns — a venomous starfish that is ravaging our precious coral reefs One of many threats to ...

A Crown of Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, feeds on several species of Montipora corals. The image was taken off the coast of Okinawa near Sesoko Island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

The Acanthaster phenomenon first published in Oceanography and marine biology: an annual review, 1986, v. 24, p. 379-480; Acanthaster planci: an annotated bibliography first published as a technical ...