#5025 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Leather Star
Dermasterias imbricata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © dendrobatidae · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Neil McDaniel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lila Higgins · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Charles Van Arsdall · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Matt Goff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Alex Heyman · CC0
- 7. © Alison Young · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Liam O'Brien · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Rebecca Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The leather star , Dermasterias imbricata , is a starfish in the family Asteropseidae found at depths to 100 m off the western seaboard of North America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 17,712 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Adolph Eduard Grube in 1857 (169 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Leather Star
- scientific name
- Dermasterias imbricata
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Valvatida
- family
- Asteropseidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,712
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1857 by Adolph Eduard Grube
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 63382, Wikidata Q2618140, GBIF 2271961, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.