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Blue linckia (four-armed)
Linckia laevigata
-24.1139, 152.719
Field Notes
Description:
These sea stars may grow up to 30 cm in diameter, with rounded tips at each of the arms; some individuals may bear lighter or darker spots along each of their arms. Individual specimens are typically firm in texture, possessing the slightly tubular, elongated arms.
Habitat:
A coral lagoon at the south end of the Coral Sea.
Notes:
This, and one other individual I spotted, had only four arms. It doesn't seem to be that one arm was lost to injury, but rather naturally occurring a mutation.
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