the leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) lives in the intertidal zone down to depths of about 300 feet, where it dines on everything from algae to sponges and sea cucumbers. Meanwhile ...

A sea star may look a little flattened ... a relatively short reaction time that indicates it is on the mend. As a species, leather stars tend to weather the wasting disease well.

The sunflower sea star—which can span more than three feet ... Bat), the Minnesota Zoo (Rainbow), and the Aquarium of the Pacific (Leather). Their life spans are primarily based on observations ...

From 2013 through 2015, sea star wasting disease hit the West Coast ... After the ochre stars, other species started melting — mottled stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, rainbows and six ...

and several other sea star species, including the spiny pink star, Pisaster brevispinus, also declined. Numbers of the less-common leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) and two species of sea urchin, ...