{"id":3327,"date":"2011-02-21T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:08:04","slug":"slime-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/02\/21\/slime-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3328\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3328\" title=\"Cushion star 1\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let that unassuming lumpy appearance fool you \u2013 like a pesky little brother, this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boydski.com\/diving\/photos\/seastars\/cushion_star.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> cushion star (<em>Pteraster tesselatus<\/em>)<\/a><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> <\/span> is loaded with snot and can fire at will.\u00a0\u00a0 Any good scientist knows that mucous makes the world go round, and makes for a pretty effective defense.\u00a0 If you mess with this critter, expect things to get messy&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3330\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3330\" title=\"Cushion star 3\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This star was collected during a government fish trawl survey near southern California. \ufeff Here&#8217;s a shot of the underside in case you need convincing that there is indeed a graceful sea star under all that slime.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3329\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3329\" title=\"Cushion star 2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/cushion-star-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let that unassuming lumpy appearance fool you \u2013 like a pesky little brother, this cushion star (Pteraster tesselatus) is loaded with snot and can fire at will.\u00a0\u00a0 Any good scientist knows that mucous makes the world go round, and makes for a pretty effective defense.\u00a0 If you mess with this critter, expect things to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}