These stars were collected from the Red Sea. Can anyone help idenify?
Mohamed Abu El-Regal
Can you enlight us? It looks like a Oreaster sp. but none are present in the red sea.
Where was it sampled?
It was collected from the Gulf of Suez in the northern Red Sea
Mohamed Abu El-Regal regarding the location of collection, it could be a Pentaceraster cumingi, although it is hard to tell these knobby seastars apart.
Some have been seen in Egypt, and have been recorded on Gbif (see link below).
As Gray describes it in 1840, called Pentaceros cummingi back in the days :
The arms rather narrow, nearly as long as the diameter of the body : marginal spines, few, small ; back rather depressed, with conical protuberces, bearing small spines. Diam. 12".
Can you confirm?T
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?geometry=POLYGON((13.38536%208.37977,69.65945%208.37977,69.65945%2030.87977,13.38536%2030.87977,13.38536%208.37977))&has_coordinate=true&has_geospatial_issue=false&occurrence_status=present&taxon_key=2271946
Conference Paper PICTORIAL KEY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ECHINODERMS INHABITING L...
Panamic cushion star, Cortez starfish or knobby star (a name also used for other species), is a species of starfish in the family Oreasteridae.
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