Species sheet
Chocolate chip starfish
Protoreaster nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AnimalsEchinodermaAsteroids (starfish)
Distribution map
Geographic areas (BioObs)
New Caledonia
Observation type
Scuba divingApnea / Snorkelling
Other common names
- Horned seastarBritish English
- Knobby starBritish English
- Gehörnter SeesternGerman (Germany)
- Knotiger Walzen-SeesternGerman (Germany)
- Estrella de mar nudosaEuropean Spanish
- Etoile de mer à cornesFrench (France)
- Etoile à bossesFrench (France)
- Cornuta mare stellaItalian (Italy)
- Hoorn-zeesterDutch (Netherlands)
Other invalid scientific names
- Asterias nodosa
- Oreaster clouei
- Oreaster franklini
- Oreaster hiulcus
- Oreaster hondurae
- Oreaster intermedia
- Oreaster mammosus
- Oreaster modestus
- Oreaster mutica
- Oreaster nahensis
- Oreaster nodosus
- Oreaster turritus
- Pentaceros clouei
- Pentaceros franklini
- Pentaceros hiulcus
- Pentaceros modestus
- Pentaceros nodosus
- Pentaceros turritus
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Sources
- LE BRIS Sylvain, DUCARME Frédéric in : DORIS, 27/11/2019 : Protoreaster nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/2340
How to cite this BioObs sheet?
BioObs, 18/09/2026 : Protoreaster nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758), https://bioobs.fr/en/species-sheets/2281
Modification history
- Created by BioObs user on 18/09/2026
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