Crown-of-Thorn Seastars

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: Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (Acanthaster planci)

: COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: COTS on finger coral (Porites lobata)

: COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: Close up of COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: COTS scar on mounding coral (Porites lobata).

: COTS scar on rice coral (Montipora capitata).

: COTS scar on rice coral (Montipora capitata). Note partial scarring on neighboring mounding corals.

: COts outbreak north Oahu.

: COts outbreak on rice corals northern Oahu.

: COts outbreak on rice corals northern Oahu.

: Acanthaster planci on cauliflower coral

: COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.

: Close up of COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.

: COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.

: COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).

: COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).

: Close up of COTS arms on finger corals.

: Titon’s Trumpet, one of the important predators of COTS.

: COTS scar on cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Note live tissue between branches.

: Cushion seastars are also corallivores (Culcita novaeguineae).

: Cots on Bewick’s Coral (Leptastrea bewickensis).

: Cots scar on Bewick’s Coral (Leptastrea bewickensis).