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Created 11/12/2020

Family Oreasteridae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Protoreaster nodosus

Komodo, Indonesia

  
   

 
   

CHOCOLATE CHIP SEA STAR

Common on sand and in seagrass beds.  Color variable, with large dark spines forming single row on each arm.  Attains width of 12 inches.  Seychelles to Japan and Vanuatu.