Asterodiscides truncatus, the firebrick starfish, is a species of five-armed starfish in the family Asterodiscididae. It is native to eastern and southern Australia, the Norfolk Ridge and the Kermadec
The neritic zone is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 meters in depth. From the point of view of marine biology it forms a relativ
Sargassum seaweed drifting in the neritic zone provides food and shelter for small epipelagic fish.