Frank O
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What's going on with this sea star (shot last week in about 60 ft of water off Kona, Hawaii)? Is this a regeneration thing?
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archman:I am assuming that it is a Linckia-type thing, and that absurdly long arm was at one point the "comet's tail" during a body fragmentation event.
Which from the animal's size, appears to have been a long time ago.