Sheriff-badge Sea Star

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 37 records
February: 41 records
March: 39 records
April: 38 records
May: 35 records
June: 28 records
July: 23 records
August: 19 records
September: 25 records
October: 25 records
November: 49 records
December: 42 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 1–20 m · Deepest record: 150 m

0–10 m: 26 records
10–20 m: 3 records
20–30 m: 1 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 0 records
50–60 m: 2 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 21–30 °C

20–22 °C: 2 records
22–24 °C: 2 records
24–26 °C: 36 records
26–28 °C: 24 records
28–30 °C: 43 records

Photos

(c) RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2016, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2016, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Philippe Bourjon, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Parsa Fard, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) keesgroenendijk, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Alberto Alcalá, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Sheriff-badge Sea Star

Names in 4 more languages

Spanish: Estrella de mar con quilla
French: Étoile de shérif
Japanese: ノコギリヒトデ
Simplified Chinese: 脊鋸腕海星

Other scientific names: Asterias carinifera, Asterope carinifera, Gymnasteria biserrata, Gymnasteria carinifera, Gymnasteria spinosa, Gymnasteria valvulata, Gymnasterias carinifera

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
274 open-data records from 1816 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.