Novodinia antillensis

Novodinia antillensis, the velcro sea star, is a species of starfish in the family Brisingidae.

It is found in the deep sea in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic Ocean, being quite common at a depth of around 500 m (1,640 ft) on the Mesoamerican Reef off Roatán, Honduras.

[2] This starfish has ten to fourteen long tapering arms with distinctive large eyespots on the tips.

[5] On the Cape Fear coral mound off North Carolina at a depth of around 400 m (1,300 ft), the dominant macrobenthos included N. antillensis as well as the American conger (Conger oceanicus), the alfonsino (Beryx decadactylus), sea urchins and squat lobsters (Eumunida picta).

More transient visitors to the seamount included the shortbeard codling (Laemonema barbatulum) and the blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus) which were mostly found on the lower slopes and base of the mound.