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	Starfish: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		Starfish range in size from an inch in diameter to nearly a yard in diameter.
		Starfish are viewed as direct competitors with both subsistence and sport clam diggers.
		In reality, starfish are important in maintaining the balance of nature by thinning out biological excess, consuming carrion, and directly and indirectly creating a diversity of species which provides man a varied menu of seafood.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/shellfsh/starfish.php (710 words)

	MSN Encarta - Starfish
		Starfish, also sea star, common name for 5 orders and about 1500 living species of marine invertebrate animals characterized by radially arranged arms bearing locomotory tube feet.
		Some starfish are only 1 to 2 cm (0.4 to 0.8 in) wide as adults, but others are as much as 65 cm (26 in) wide.
		Many starfish have the power to regenerate body parts, and in some starfish this becomes a regular means of asexual reproduction, new animals being produced from each fragment.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572716/Starfish.html (307 words)

	Crown-of-Thorns Starfish , Echinoderms , Animals Encyclopedia , wkza.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish belong to the echinoderms which includes sea cucumbers, brittle stars, feather stars and sea urchins.
		The crown-of-thorns starfish is covered by a large number of long, very sharp spines (4-5 cm in length).
		The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish have a star shaped body; The mouth is in the centre of the underside of the disc.
	www.wkza.com /animals_encyclopedia_2573_3180.html (152 words)

	ABC-KID.com - Starfish Pictures for Kids (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The starfish is an amazing animal, surviving without the benefit of eyes, ears or a nose.
		The starfish's arms surround a small disc-like body, which houses a mouth in the center of the underside of the body.
		Most starfish live in the deepest parts of the sea and are often found hiding under rocks or in tide pools.
	www.abc-kid.com /starfish (295 words)

	Sea and Sky: Echinoderms Page 1
		This starfish is grows to a diameter of 10 inches, and is found on the sandy bottoms in the Atlantic waters from South Carolina to Florida.
		This starfish grows to a diameter of about 8 inches, and is found under rocks where it feeds on small sponges and algae.
		This starfish grows to about 4 inches in diameter, and is commonly found in the Indian ocean near Indonesia where is feeds on small sponges and algae.
	www.seasky.org /reeflife/sea2d.html (478 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Common starfish
		Starfish have the ability to push their stomachs out of their mouths in order to digest prey too big to swallow.
		Starfish are unmistakable with their five arms with rows of tube feet on the underside.
		Sometimes common starfish with six or more limbs are seen, this may be a result of the starfish accidentally growing two limbs to replace a single loss.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/418.shtml (375 words)

	starfish on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish Software Introduces Starfish Internet Sidekick; Starfish Internet Sidekick is the best way for Internet users to manage their calendar, contacts and communications.
		Starfish Software announces Dashboard Software Developer's Kit; new kit allows developers to create Dashboard Loadable Modules to leverage Dashboard 95's open architecture.
		A Decline in Starfish, Asterias forbesi, Abundance and a Concurrent Increase in Northern Quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, Abundance and Landings in the Northeastern United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-starfish.asp (355 words)

	Echinoderms (starfish, brittle star, sea urchin, feather star, sea cucumber)
		The starfish lives everywhere in the coral reef and on sand or rocks.
		Some starfish are specialized feeders, for example the crown-of-thorns that feeds on life coral polyps.
		Starfish are well known for their powers of regeneration.
	www.starfish.ch /reef/echinoderms.html (2461 words)

	Starfish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish are interesting animals that also live along the beaches.
		Starfish usually have 5 arms, although some have as many as 44 arms.
		Starfish have a flattened body with their mouth located underneath its body.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/eviau/edit557/oceans/norma/ostrfsh.htm (105 words)

	Starfish
		Starfish are not actually a fish at all, but are animals belonging to the Phylum Echinodermata, and are further divided into two classes Asteroidea (sea stars) and Ophiuroidea (brittle stars).
		Although starfish are thought to be passive they can be quite a voracious predator under the sea.
		While starfish are commonly represented as having only 5 legs five legs, their are some that exhibit many more like the Crown of Thorns starfish below.
	www.seashells.com /starfish.htm (161 words)

	The Starfish
		Starfish have the ability to regenerate their arms when lost or injured.
		Starfishes are built on a five rayed plan, although some star- fishes have many more than five arms.
		To increase their chances of fertilization, starfish probably gather in groups when they are ready to spawn, use environmental signals to coordinate timing (day length to indicate the correct time of the year, dawn or dusk to indicate the correct time of day), and may use chemical signals to indicate their readiness to each other.
	members.aol.com /cebrezzie/aquarium/index9.htm (1600 words)

	Growth of a Starfish
		Larvae of sea cucumbers and starfishes don't have a skeleton, those of sea urchins and brittle stars possess an internal skeleton, consisting of skeletal spicules, supporting the more elongate "arms" of the larvae.
		Most species of starfish shed their eggs and sperm freely into the water, so fertilization is externally.
		A female starfish sheds in two hours several millions of eggs into the water, with a mean diameter of 0.16-0.19 mm.
	www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/art98/janstar.html (525 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Starfish is a first novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, and it's a pleasing combination of hard SF and solid storytelling.
		Her development from an utterly passive victim into the de facto leader of the rifters is well handled and intriguing.
		Another treat in Starfish is the lack of narrative trustworthiness--as the rifters become paranoid about the company's plans for them, readers are left wondering if this is a justified reaction or merely a new manifestation of the group's psychosis.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue123/books.html (1128 words)

	FACE about us Starfish
		Starfish is a charity that supports children in South African who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
		By challenging perspectives and beliefs, the Starfish Foundation seeks to inspire and mobilise individuals in their various fields of influence to bring life, hope and opportunity to these children and their communities.
		Starfish funds community-based projects, which are delivering care to the orphans, by ensuring that their physical, educational, psycho-social and shelter needs are being met.
	www.face.org.za /content/global/aboutUs/starFish.htm (371 words)

	Business Wire: Starfish Software Introduces Starfish Internet ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish will be giving away thousands of prizes, including copies of Starfish Internet Sidekick, Pilot hand-held devices, t-shirts, and much more.
		Starfish Internet Sidekick is available now and has an estimated retail price of $69.95 US.
		Starfish Software's mission is to be the leader in providing high-quality, innovative solutions based on open industry standards that help individuals and organizations communicate and collaborate more productively using the Internet and Intranets.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18704672&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1169 words)

	Starfish Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Starfish Galaxy (also known as Galaxy NGC 6420 or NGC 6420) is a galaxy located in the Ophiuchus constellation.
		It differs from other galaxies in having two nuclei and is believed to have formed when two smaller galaxies collapsed.
		The Starfish Galaxy was first observed in detail with the IRAS satellite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Starfish_Galaxy (116 words)

	Starfish - Sea Stars
		Starfish characteristically have five arms extending from a central disk like a star, hence the common name Starfish or sea stars.
		It is important to keep Starfish under water during acclimation and placement in the aquarium.
		Serpent and Brittle Starfish are popular additions to reef aquariums that contain live sand as they constantly stir the sand bed and provide oxygen to the beneficial bacteria living in the sand.
	www.peteducation.com /category_summary.cfm?cls=16&cat=1908 (320 words)

	Natural Perspective: Starfish (Class: Asteroidea)
		Starfish may well be the most unusual well-known creature.
		Rather than using muscles to move their hundreds of tiny legs, starfish use a complex hydraulic system to move around or cling to rocks.
		Starfish are usually fairly sluggish, have five or six arms and get pretty stiff when you try to pick them up.
	www.perspective.com /nature/animalia/starfish.html (366 words)

	Camp Starfish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She came across a starfish that had been washed ashore and was now wriggling and drying up quickly in the hot sun.
		She was so busy tossing back the starfish, that she never noticed that a person had stopped to watch her.
		Her arms fell limp at her sides, and the starfish she was holding fell back to the hot sand.
	www.campstarfish.org /starfishstory.html (529 words)

	Aquascope\|Facts\|Starfish\|More 1
		The starfish is commonly known for its ability to open large mussels.
		It was thought that the starfish secreted a substance that paralysed the mussel, but it appears that traction is enough to open the mussel.
		Because the starfish everts its stomach and encompasses its prey when it eats, it is able to digest rather large prey.
	www.vattenkikaren.gu.se /fakta/arter/echinode/asteroid/asterube/asteru1e.html (308 words)

	AIMS Crown-of-Thorns Starfish - Life Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The starfish becomes sexually mature at the end of its second year by which time it has grown to about 20 cm in diameter.
		After 3-4 years (when the starfish is about 35 cm in size) it is thought to go into a senile phase where growth declines dramatically and reproduction is low.
		It is not known how long starfish live however, they have been kept in aquaria for as long as 8 years.
	www.aims.gov.au /pages/reflib/cot-starfish/pages/cot-q27.html (239 words)

	Welcome to Starfish Family Services-About Us (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish Family Services has a 40-year history of helping to strengthen families in our community.
		Starfish believes that every individual is valuable and capable of growth.
		Last year alone, Starfish served 8,252 children and their families as clients and thousands of other individuals on a one-time or intermittent basis.
	www.starfishonline.org /about_us.htm (248 words)

	Starfish Reproduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish commonly reproduce by free-spawning: releasing their gametes into the water where they hopefully are fertilized by gametes from the opposite sex.
		Some species of starfish brood their young: the males spawn gametes which fertilize eggs held by the females.
		Male and female starfish are not distinguishable from the outside; you need to see the gonads or be lucky enough to catch them spawning.
	www.vsf.cape.com /~jdale/science/reproduction.htm (251 words)

	Healthcare Providers, Alternative Healthcare, Starfish Health Partners
		Starfish is a local community of providers and health seekers, so you become connected with your community.
		Starfish is a referral service and does not endorse particular providers.
		The flexibility of Starfish Health Partners is its healthcare without walls, where Partners provide you quality service without being in the same practice.
	starfish.aktitest.com /health_seeker_faq.php (349 words)

	Starfish have amazing power of regeneration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A reader writes, "I know that starfish have amazing powers of regeneration, but I have seen pictures of regenerated starfish and in some the regenerated arms are much smaller than the original arms.
		Some starfish can replicate themselves from only one arm and about 1/5th of the central disk, the "body" of the creature, and others divide their central disk in two.
		But when threatened starfish withdraw their suction-cup feet on their underside and stiffen their skin on the topside.
	www.susanscott.net /OceanWatch2001/may25-01.html (581 words)

	Starfish Page
		Because of the way a starfish moves this area is normally inacessable to predators as it is either pressed against a rock or whatever food source the starfish may have found.
		Starfish are carnivorous predators and usually feed off snails, crustaceans, and other smaller prey.
		We also disected starfish, and on our starfish disection page you can take a look at the precedures and anatomy involved in their disection.
	www.sidwell.edu /us/science/21bio/seaside/public_html/text/starfish.html (227 words)

	StarFISH (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The StarFISH algorithm determines the best-fit star-formation history (SFH) of a stellatr population, given multicolor photometry and a library of theoretical isochrones.
		StarFISH is freely available for use by the astronomical community.
		StarFISH does not require artificial constraints on the form of the SFH; we routinely use it to determine histories with up to 50 independent parameters.
	ngala.as.arizona.edu /mcsurvey/SFH (280 words)

	Starfish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You choose a color palette (or let Starfish create its own) and a tiling size (or use the full monitor size) and the software does the rest.
		Starfish will automatically create new desktops on a schedule you select, or you can simply generate new images whenever you get tired of the old ones.
		Starfish is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.
	www.redplanetsw.com /starfish (215 words)

	Gander Academy's Theme Pages: Sun Stars or Starfish
		True starfish are classified in the Asteroidea, a group of echinoderms.
		Unlike the superficially similar brittle stars (Ophiuroidea), true starfish have no sharp demarcation between arms and central body, and they move using tube feet rather than wriggling movements of the whole arms.
		The starfish body is sheathed in a flexible armor of skeletal pieces, the arms are thick and equipped with suckers used for locomotion and holding prey.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/oceanstars.htm (466 words)

	The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Starfish@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starfish, or sea star, common marine animal found from
		Starfish are usually radially symmetrical, often with 5
		operates the starfish's tube feet by hydraulic pressure.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28751632&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (146 words)

	Starfish - Greathearts Foundation - Turning the Tide on AIDS
		Starfish Greathearts Foundation is an international development charity, aiming to bring life, hope and opportunity to orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa.
		We are proud to announce the launch of a new version of a South African musical classic -Johnny Clegg's 'Spirit of the Great Heart'.
		For the 5th year in a row, Starfish is lucky enough to be the beneficiary of the Standard Bank Cycle 4 Kids, an initiative that has raised over R6 million to date!
	www.starfishcharity.org (374 words)

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