Crown-of-thorns starfish substrates with their arms and, when offered a choice of substrates, tend to settle on coralline algae, which they will subsequently feed on. In the classic pattern for echinoderms, the bilaterally symmetrical larva is replaced by a pentamerously symmetrical stage at metamorphosis, with the latter's body axis bearing no relationship to that of the larva. Thus the newly metamorphosed starfish are five-armed and are 0.4–1 mm diameter. (Note the size of the tube feet relative to the size of the animal.) They feed on the thin coating layers of hard encrusting algae (coralline algae) on the undersides of dead coral
Starfish (album) in the top 40 in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums". In 2011 the album, along with "Priest=Aura" and "Untitled #23", was played in its entirety on the band's 30th Anniversary "Future, Past, Perfect" tour. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Ned Raggett wrote that "if sometimes too clean around the corners in comparison to the song-for-song masterpiece "Heyday", "Starfish" set up the band's well-deserved breakthrough in the States," and added that the performances throughout "are at the least fine and at the most fantastic." Credited to: RIAA:Gold Starfish (album) Starfish is the fifth album by the Australian rock