Latin name: Asterina gibbosa
Size: up to 5cm in diameter
Colour: olive green to pale orange
Habitat: all over the rocky shore, under rocks in rockpools
Facts:
Size: up to 5cm in diameter
Colour: olive green to pale orange
Habitat: all over the rocky shore, under rocks in rockpools
Facts:
- They have five short arms and thousands of small sucker feet on their underside
- When hungry, the cushion starfish pushes its stomach out of its body through its mouth to surround food
- They are scavengers that feed on dead plants and animals
- Cushion starfish mature as males at two years old and change to females at four years old
- The females lay up to 1,000 orange eggs which then hatch into baby starfish, this often happens in our tanks so look out for tiny starfish only a couple of millimetres big
