Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater
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Leiaster glaber is notable for its wine-red color with an irregular pink pattern on the arms, the madreporite and the spot at the tip of each arm are purple, and the adoral surface shows a pink border along the furrow that blends into the pink areas in the aboral region.
However, the color pattern is variable, usually reticulate with white patterns.
Leiaster glaber can only occasionally be encountered at night in small burrows, and the starfish is rarely found at accessible diving depths.
The red velvet sea star has a slippery texture.
Synonym: Leiaster callipeplus Fisher, 1906
However, the color pattern is variable, usually reticulate with white patterns.
Leiaster glaber can only occasionally be encountered at night in small burrows, and the starfish is rarely found at accessible diving depths.
The red velvet sea star has a slippery texture.
Synonym: Leiaster callipeplus Fisher, 1906
