#4989 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

White Sea Star

🇳🇱 Doornige zeester ·Coscinasterias tenuispina

🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
3. © Rino · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Albertini maridom · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Elia Guariento · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Steve Daniels · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Bernard L'ermite · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Coscinasterias tenuispina is a starfish in the family Asteriidae. It is sometimes called the blue spiny starfish or the white starfish . It occurs in shallow waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,724iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,724 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck in 1816 (210 years ago).