Distolasterias nipon
Amazing fact
Nippon sea stars use their tube feet to dig bivalves out of sand and eat them.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
No sign-up needed. You can save notes on this device.
An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Nippon sea stars use their tube feet to dig bivalves out of sand and eat them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Distolasterias nipon
- Scientific name
- Distolasterias nipon
- Japanese name
- ニッポンヒトデ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Forcipulatida
- Family
- Asteriidae
- Genus
- Distolasterias
A large sea star with long arms that lives in the seas from central Honshu northward.
How the Distolasterias nipon lives
It lives on rocky seabeds and sandy, muddy bottoms.
鶴岡市立加茂水族館Basic data
- Range
- Central Honshu northward
Where the Distolasterias nipon 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
- ニッポンヒトデ
- 简体中文
- 日本长腕海盘车
- 繁體中文
- 日本長腕海盤車
- 한국어
- 일본불가사리
- Русский
- Дистоластерия японская
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 — ニッポンヒトデChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — ニッポンヒトデChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ニッポンヒトデ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.
Report a mistakeRELATIVES
Others in Asteriidae
MORE TO MEET
