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Blue linckia or Blue starfish

Linckia laevigata

Photo by lori.tas
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A blue seastar growing up to 30cm in diameter.

Habitat:

Shallow waters in the Indio-pacific. These were photographed at Mackay reef.

Notes:

OK, so they're hardly centered in the photo, but I was bobbing like a cork.

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Linckia laevigata

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Comments (2)
Hannah Ake
This is a great picture of a lot of different species of coral. In the foreground is a Staghorn coral and in the back is an Acropora. It's hard to tell the exact species from this distance, but definitely worth noting! The sea stars are beautiful!
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PublishedMarch 1, 2011

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