Aquilonastra minor
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The Chibi-itomaki sea star has a bulging back and a flat underside.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Aquilonastra minor
- Scientific name
- Aquilonastra minor
- Japanese name
- チビイトマキヒトデ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Asterinidae
- Genus
- Aquilonastra
A small sea star that lives in the seas from Sagami Bay to the southern tip of Kyushu.
Its young (larvae) have no drifting stage; they crawl along the sea floor instead.
How the Aquilonastra minor lives
It lives beneath loose stones on shores reached by the tides.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay to southern Kyushu
Where the Aquilonastra minor has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — チビイトマキヒトデChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — チビイトマキヒトデChecked: 2026-11-07
- 국립해양생물자원관 — 작은별불가사리Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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