Common starfish Common starfish The common starfish or common sea star ("Asterias rubens") is the most common and familiar starfish in the north-east Atlantic. Belonging to the family Asteriidae, it has five arms and usually grows to between 10–30 cm across, although larger specimens (up to 52 cm across) are known. The common starfish is usually orange or brown, and sometimes violet; deep-water specimens are pale. The common starfish is to be found on rocky and gravelly substrates where it feeds on molluscs and other benthic invertebrates. The common starfish normally has five arms, broad at their base and gradually tapering to
Starfish (album) in the top 40 in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums". In 2011 the album, along with "Priest=Aura" and "Untitled #23", was played in its entirety on the band's 30th Anniversary "Future, Past, Perfect" tour. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Ned Raggett wrote that "if sometimes too clean around the corners in comparison to the song-for-song masterpiece "Heyday", "Starfish" set up the band's well-deserved breakthrough in the States," and added that the performances throughout "are at the least fine and at the most fantastic." Credited to: RIAA:Gold Starfish (album) Starfish is the fifth album by the Australian rock