#5048 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Red Cushion Sea Star
Oreaster reticulatus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © mathildecdkm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Kent Miller · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 3. © James St. John · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © James St. John · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Oreaster reticulatus , commonly known as the red cushion sea star or the West Indian sea star , is a species of marine invertebrate, a starfish in the family Oreasteridae. It is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean 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.
- 4,287 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Red Cushion Sea Star
- scientific name
- Oreaster reticulatus
- class
- Asteroidea
- order
- Valvatida
- family
- Oreasteridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,287
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Oreasteridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49500, Wikidata Q822952, GBIF 2272969, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.