Concarneau Bay, France, 6 meters, 2004, WBN
Asterina gibbosa is a starfish of 2 to 7 cm in diameter. Its color is variable: pale-green, gray, ochre, beige or brown. Its flattened body is subpentagonal and armtips are rounded. Only the central disc is slighlty swollen. It feeds on bivalves, gastropods and brittle stars found on rocks.
Asterina gibbosa is found from surface to 20 m deep, rarely down to 100 m, in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is rare in the North Sea.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Biota (Superdomain)
Animalia (Kingdom)
Echinodermata (Phylum)
Asterozoa (Subphylum)
Asteroidea (Class)
Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
Valvatacea (Superorder)
Valvatida (Order)
Asterinidae (Family)
Asterina (Genus)
Asterina gibbosa (Species)
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2025.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
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Données de distribution : Asterina gibbosa (Pennant, 1777) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-09-18.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Biota (Superdomain)
Animalia (Kingdom)
Echinodermata (Phylum)
Asterozoa (Subphylum)
Asteroidea (Class)
Ambuloasteroidea (Subclass)
Neoasteroidea (Infraclass)
Valvatacea (Superorder)
Valvatida (Order)
Asterinidae (Family)
Asterina (Genus)
Asterina gibbosa (Species)
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2025.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat A., March 2005, Description of Asterina gibbosa, [On line] https://www.european-marine-life.org/30/asterina-gibbosa.php, consulted on 2025 September 18.
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