The diet of Astropecten irregularis pentachantus (Delle Chiaje,1825) from the Central Mediterranean Sea

A study of somach contents of Astropecten irregularis pentachantus collected at depth of 160 m on the muddy-sandy bottom, in the southern Tyrrhenian sea (Central mediterranean),found that their diet was dominated by the gastropod Eulimella acicula (Philippi, 1836) and the bivalve Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792).