#4971 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Mediterranean Red Sea Star
🇳🇱 Mediterrane rode zeester ·Echinaster sepositus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Echinaster sepositus , the Mediterranean red sea star (sometimes only red sea star, but this name is also used for other species), is a species of starfish from the East Atlantic, including the Mediterranean Sea.
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.
- 5,308 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Anders Jahan Retzius in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Red Sea Star
- Nederlands
- Mediterrane rode zeester
- scientific name
- Echinaster sepositus
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Spinulosida
- family
- Echinasteridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,582
- sightings worldwide
- 5,308
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Anders Jahan Retzius
relatives· Echinasteridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117446, Wikidata Q2118980, GBIF 2273623, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.