The first time I saw a five inch long spotted linckia sea star while diving, I gently picked it up to get a better view and shoot a video clip of this beautiful red and grey reef creature.

The starfish in the top image is an Indo-Pacific species called the blue star (Linckia laevigata ... It’s a tiny red nub, barely half a millimetre wide. It’s usually exposed, but the starfish ...

What makes a starfish blue? (or yellow, or grey or…?) The iconic sea star Linckia laevigata is the ‘poster child’ for tropical reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It occurs as a variety of colours ...

In field experiments, Anders Garm at the University of Copenhagen and Dan-Eric Nilsson at Lund University in Sweden displaced blue starfish (Linckia laevigata) from the coral reefs they inhabit ...