#5023 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bat Star
Patiria miniata
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what is it?
The bat star ( Patiria miniata ), also known as a sea bat , webbed star , and broad-disk star , is a species of sea star (also called a starfish) in the family Asterinidae. It typically has five arms, with the center disk of the animal being much wider than the stubby arms are in length. Although the bat star usually has five arms, it sometimes has as many as nine. Bat stars occur in many of colors, including green,...
base stats
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.
- 22,955 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bat Star
- scientific name
- Patiria miniata
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Valvatida
- family
- Asterinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 22,955
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Johann Friedrich von Brandt
relatives· Asterinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48830, Wikidata Q3468311, GBIF 2272172, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.