🦋 Family

Ophidiasteridae

10 species · Animals

Animalia › Echinodermata › Asteroidea › Valvatida › Ophidiasteridae

Linckia laevigata is a common colorful coral reef sea star popular in marine aquariums, harvested for decoration.

Linckia columbiae is a variable East Pacific starfish distinguished by two rows of ambulacral plates.

Linckia multifora is a circumtropical starfish often kept in home aquaria, with more environmental tolerance than other Linckia species.

Linckia guildingi is a variable-colored Caribbean starfish with small discs, usually five long cylindrical arms, and a textured surface.

Nardoa galatheae, the brown mesh sea star, is an Indo-Pacific Ophidiasteridae sea star that eats detritus and small invertebrates.

The yellow mesh sea star Nardoa novaecaledoniae is a tropical reef-dwelling Ophidiasteridae sea star found in the Western Central Pacific.

Ophidiaster ophidianus, the purple starfish, is an East Atlantic and Mediterranean starfish that reaches 40 cm in diameter.

Gomophia egyptiaca, commonly the Egyptian sea star, is an Indo-Pacific Ophidiasteridae sea star.

Phataria unifascialis is an eastern Pacific native starfish species in the family Ophidiasteridae.

Hacelia attenuata is a Mediterranean sea star, the type species of genus Hacelia, described in 1840 by John Edward Gray.

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