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Creature Feature:

Purple star

Pisaster ochraceus

The purple star also comes in yellow, orange and ochre. It is one of the moste common sea stars on Canada’s Pacific coast

SIZE: to 50 centimetres across

WHERE IT LIVES: intertidal to 100 metres

WHAT IT EATS: mussels, barnacles, limpets, snails

CRITTER CLUE: the purple star may produce 40 million eggs

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