chocolate chip sea star
Protoreaster nodosus
Category: Starfish
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Oreasteridae
- Genus
- Protoreaster
Where to Find
Found in 22 diving areas across 14 countries and 5 regions.
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 16 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 14 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 56 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 72 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 51 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 49 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 20 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 33 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 30 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 9 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records