Indian Cushion Seastar (Culcita schmideliana)
Image Copyright 2010 jonathan Milnes
Observed: Koh Chang Reefs, February 2010
Observed By: Jonathan Milnes
The Indian Cushion Sea Star is a large and, you guessed it, cushion-like species of starfish found on Koh Chang. It has a a very different shape to the more typical five-armed examples of the starfish family but if you look closely you can still see the pentagonal shape of the animal.
Starfish are not, as many people think, members of the Mollusc family, they are in fact classified along with sea wasps, sea urchins and brittle stars as Echinoderms. I’d be lying if I said that I knew that when I started writing this.
