#5042 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Carpet Sea Star
Meridiastra calcar
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nuytsia@Tas · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © eyeweed · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Kris McCracken · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Kris McCracken · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Kris McCracken · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Nudge · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © di1975 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © debtaylor142 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Patiriella calcar , or Meridiastra calcar , commonly known as Carpet Sea Star or Cushion Sea Star or Eight-armed Sea Star , is an Australian species of sea star.
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.
- 4,968 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Carpet Sea Star
- scientific name
- Meridiastra calcar
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Valvatida
- family
- Asterinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,968
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Asterinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 355872, Wikidata Q1914078, GBIF 2272147, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.