Common comet star
Linckia guildingi
Category: Starfish
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Ophidiasteridae
- Genus
- Linckia
Where to Find
Found in 50 diving areas across 36 countries and 9 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 4 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 4 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 6 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 3 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 13 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 13 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 4 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 6 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 4 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 5 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 14 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 45 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 27 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records