Species Guide — Marine Life — Sea Stars

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Subcategory: Sea Stars
Sea Stars

Sea Stars

16 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dark-tipped Button Star

Meridiastra atyphoida

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dwarf Cushion Star

Parvulastra exigua

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Eastern Six-armed Star

Meridiastra oriens

Seastars in an intertidal rock pool

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Image of Tasmania map with the words No Conservation Status

Eight-armed Cushion Star

Meridiastra calcar

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Eleven-armed Sea Star

Coscinasterias muricata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Gunn's Six-armed Star

Meridiastra gunnii

A mottled brown and white sea star on a rock underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Irregular Sea Star

Smilasterias irregularis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Many-armed Seastar

Allostichaster polyplax

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Plectaster decanus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Ocellate Seastar

Nectria ocellata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Orange Feather Star

Cenolia trichoptera

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Schayer's brittle star

Ophionereis schayeri

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Southern Biscuit Star

Tosia australis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Southern Six-armed Star

Meridiastra medius

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Tasmanian Feather Star

Cenolia tasmaniae

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Vermillion Seastar

Pentagonaster duebeni

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A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii