Crossaster papposus is a starfish of up to 35 cm in diameter. Its body has the shape of a broad disc surrounded by a variable number of tapered arms, between 8 to 16 but more frequently from 10 to 12. The upper surface is covered by short visible spines. The disc is orange, red or brown with some scattered white spots. The bases of the arms are often white-spotted and broad white bands may cross the arms. It lives on rocks or sandy bottoms and feeds on other Echinoderms such as Asterias rubens.
Crossaster papposus is found from 1 m to depths up to 1200 m, in the Atlantic Ocean from Greenland down to the coasts of Brittany, in the English Channel, the North Sea and in the Western-Baltic Sea.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 11-12-2024
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Données de distribution : Crossaster papposus in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2006 - 2024.
Photos : ©
Maurice Loir. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat A., March 2006, Description of Crossaster papposus, [On line] https://www.european-marine-life.org/30/crossaster-papposus.php, consulted on 2024 December 11.
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