Yellow Nudibranch on Blue Starfish, Notodoris minor, Florida Islands, Solomon Islands

Commensal Shrimp associated with Starfish, Periclimenes soror, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Yellow Nudibranch on Blue Starfish, Notodoris minor, Florida Islands, Solomon Islands

Blue Starfish under a Jetty, Linckia laevigata, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Blue Starfish, Phataria unifascialis, Baltra Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Blue starfish (Linckia laevigata) cling to a coral bommie in Indonesia. This species of seastar is common throughout the Indo-Pacific.

sea star on sandy beach, Sutherland, Scotland

Blue sea star (Linckia laevigata) and orange cup coral (Tubastrea faulkneri) at night, West Escarceo, Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Diver looks down on blue seastar (Linkia laevigata) on a barrel sponge (Xestospongia sp.) Komodo, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Blue seastar, Linckia laevigata, hanging on a boulder coral, Porites sp. Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Fiji, Vanua Levu, This seastar/starfish (Linckia laevigata) is pictured on a hard plate coral.

These two parasitic mollusks, Thyca crystallina, are growing on the host starfish, Linckia laevigata. This parasitic shell only attaches to this species of starfish, into which it burrows and sucks up nutrients, Philippines

A Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera elegans) holding part of a blue seastar (Linkia laevigata) which it will feed on, Philippines