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Linckia guildingi Gray 1840, the Green
Linckia. Usually with five (sometimes 4 or 6) arms that are
cylindrical in cross section. Skin appears smooth but is coarse
with low, hard nodules. Though called "green" occurs in
other colors (tan, beige, brown, blue, reddish). Found in Indian, Pacific,
Atlantic Oceans and Caribbean. Fiji
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Pentaceraster cumingi (Gray 1840), the Panamic Cushion Star.
Family Oreasteridae. To 13.4 inches in diameter. Mid to Eastern Pacific;
Hawaii, Sea of Cortez to Peru and Galapagos. Variably red, orange to
greenish blue bodied with large red spines. Feeds on micro-fauna in
substrate, benthic algae, seagrass and other echinoderms. Usually found
on sandy bottoms from shallow to 180 meters depth. Galapagos pic. |
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Pentaceraster cumingi (Gray 1840), the Panamic Cushion Star.
Family Oreasteridae. To 13.4 inches in diameter. Mid to Eastern Pacific;
Hawaii, Sea of Cortez to Peru and Galapagos. Variably red, orange to
greenish blue bodied with large red spines. Feeds on micro-fauna in
substrate, benthic algae, seagrass and other echinoderms. Usually found
on sandy bottoms from shallow to 180 meters depth. Galapagos pic. |
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Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus 1758), Linckia
Seastar. Blue and greenish. Also found in other
colors, brown, tans, violet to burgundy, even mottled... And there
are other species of the genus offered to the trade. This animal is
very (95+ % IME) often doomed from the retailer to aquarists...
having suffered too much damage and neglect in the process of
collection, holding, shipping... Look for damage (ex. right) and
avoid such obviously poor specimens. In the wild this is an algae,
bacteria, detritus feeder... that needs space (hundreds of gallons)
and mulm (muck, dirt, call it what you will, on the bottom of its
system to survive. My advice, look to other genera, species of
seastars. Here in Fiji.
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