Luidia magnifica, the magnificent star, is a species of starfish in the family Luidiidae.

There are also paxillae on the margins of the underside and multiple rows of tube feet running down the centre of each arm.

[2] The colour is variable, sometimes being creamy yellow with bands of red spots, but other specimens are darker in varying shades of brown and olive.

[6] Like other members of the genus Luidia, the magnificent star is likely to be an opportunist predator of macrofauna and possibly also a scavenger.

[3] It swallows large items of food whole, digesting them in its two stomachs and further processing the remains in the pyloric caeca in the base of its arms.