Noble Feather Star
Amazing fact
The spaces among a noble feather star’s arms are home to small shrimps and crabs.
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The spaces among a noble feather star’s arms are home to small shrimps and crabs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Noble Feather Star
- Scientific name
- Comaster nobilis
- Japanese name
- ハナウミシダ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Crinoidea
- Order
- Comatulida
- Family
- Comatulidae
- Genus
- Comaster
Adults have no cirri (clinging appendages); they prop up their bodies with arms stretched downward.
How the Noble Feather Star lives
It gathers drifting food with its arms and carries it to the mouth at their base.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- The Indian and western Pacific oceans
Where the Noble Feather Star 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
- 日本語
- ハナウミシダ
- 简体中文
- 贵族栉羽星
- 繁體中文
- 貴族櫛羽星
- Deutsch
- Edel-Haarstern
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 — ハナウミシダChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ハナウミシダChecked: 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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