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This large, flat sea star is often seen on our Northern shores. Smaller ones are usually seen in seagrass meadows while larger ones are usually seen on coral rubble, sometimes wedged under large rocks. It is usually seen alone and usually more active at night. According to Lane, these sea stars were previously only seen from samples dredged from the channel between Pulau Ubin and Pulau Tekong. One was seen in a dive off Pulau Semakau. They are considered rare in the Indo-Pacific only known from North Australia, southern Japan, China, Indonesia and Singapore and little is known about them.