Indicated Featherstar

Stephanometra indica

It is a medium sized feather star, with a relatively variable color pattern. Classically, it is gray-white concentrically barred cream, brown or orange. It has the peculiarity of having more often its arms in two parallel planes, like a fan, rather than as a bush or corolla. It stands at night at the summit of the corals, more or less perpendicular to the current.
Feather Star (Stephanometra indica) Monument, Lembeh. Night dive. Tentative ID. There is only two species into the Stephanometra genus, both with overlapping distribution: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanometra Feather Star,Geotagged,Indonesia,Spring,Stephanometra indica

Appearance

This species is extremely difficult to distinguish from its close cousin Lamprometra palmata, whose distribution and behavior it also shares. It differs in particular in the lower side of the arms, where the spine is distinctly marked at each division between the rounded articulations, and also by the long pinnules situated at the base of the arms which protect the tegmen; straight, very rigid transformed into kinds of quills composed of longer than wide segments.
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Distribution

Distribution: Indo-Pacifique tropical.

References:

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionEchinodermata
ClassCrinoidea
OrderComatulida
FamilyMariametridae
GenusStephanometra
SpeciesStephanometra indica
Photographed in
Indonesia
Maldives