What is Sunflower sea star?
{{Taxobox | image = Sun flower sea star in tide pools.jpg | image_caption = | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Echinoderm]]ata | classis = [[Sea star|Asteroidea]] | ordo = [[Forcipulatida]] | familia = [[Asteriidae]] | genus = '''''Pycnopodia''''' | species = '''''P. helianthoides''''' | binomial = ''Pycnopodia helianthoides'' | binomial_authority = [[Johann Friedrich von Brandt|Brandt]], 1835&nbsp;<ref>{{ITIS |taxon=''Pycnopodia helianthoides'' |id=157274 |accessdate=9 April 2007}}</ref> | status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1 }} ''Pycnopodia helianthoides'', commonly known as the '''sunflower sea star''', is a large sea star found in the northeast Pacific. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Echinoderms]] {{biology-stub}}