Comet sea star

Scientific name : Linckia multifora

Small sea star with 5 arms, often with different lenght. Typical colour pattern mottled in blue, red, white, yellow. 12 cm diameter. Encountered along the back reef, reef front and external reef. Easy to identify due to the colour pattern. This is a species with a great regenerating power, often a new specimen can grow from the fragment of an arm. In the photo a new star regenerating from an arm, cut from the "mother" star.

Associated organisms
It can host the parasitic gastropod Thyca crystallina.