My wife and I took pictures of this but no one has ever seen this before. Our DM in Cozumel had no idea and he was born and raised here. Spoke with Mickey Charteris and he had told us before to send him pictures if it was something out of the ordinary. He said he has no idea what it is. Seen on the Termientos reef in Cozumel.
Can anyone identify this creature?
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coldwaterlloyd
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looks like a mutalated starfish , legs eaten away by acidic sea water
coldwaterlloyd
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We see them like that all the time up here in Pacific NW . The giant Sunstars are endangered , and it is acidic waters unfortunately , that guy probably got eaten ...
Sea star wasting disease is a pathogenic infection that seems to be exercabated by elevated sea temperatures.
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Large-scale impacts of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) on intertidal sea stars and implications for recovery
Disease outbreaks can have substantial impacts on wild populations, but the often patchy or anecdotal evidence of these impacts impedes our ability to understand outbreak dynamics. Recently however, a severe disease outbreak occurred in a group of very well-studied organisms–sea stars along the...
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