Just a small separate but still living arm in a lagoon Halimeda patch. The rest could have been consumed by a triton, Charonia tritonis, or perhaps by a large predatory fish. Occasionally you find these stars with a commensal school of small cardinalfish, Siphamia versicolor. Apparently when the rest of the star disappeared, this small group of cardinals managed to stay with the arm tip.

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