⭐️ Meet this wonderful and colorful creature: Echinaster sepositus
❤️ Also called “Red Star” because of its unmistakable color, this one belongs to the Phylum Echinoderms; yes, it is a cousin of sea cucumbers and sea urchins!
🌊 It can be found already from shallow depths, where it lives most of the time attached to underwater rocks or on the seafloor
🏃🏼♀️ But that's not all! In fact, the red star is also able to move thanks to small pedicels on the lower surface of its body that enable it to move even for relatively long distances!
🤿 During our snorkeling trips, it is not difficult to come across Echinaster sepositus, and this encounter always arouses the enthusiasm of those who dive with our Marine Biologists!
🤔 Fun fact: Did you know that the starfish breathes from the upper surface of its body? A small hole, called a madreporite, allows this animal to filter the water around it and get oxygen from it!
For this reason, it is critical NOT to put these animals out of water, and to make others aware of the need to do the same
✨ Be responsible tourists, and remember that the guests in the sea are us!
