Heliometra glacialis
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Hige feather stars stay still on rocks and hardly move.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Heliometra glacialis
- Scientific name
- Heliometra glacialis
- Japanese name
- ヒゲウミシダ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Crinoidea
- Order
- Comatulida
- Family
- Antedonidae
- Genus
- Heliometra
It lives in cold waters such as those around the Arctic, and in Suruga Bay and the Kumano Sea.
It is a feather star that grows large, but the ones caught in the Kumano Sea are small.
Basic data
- Range
- Cold waters around the Arctic and elsewhere, Suruga Bay, and Kumano-nada
Where the Heliometra glacialis has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒゲウミシダChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヒゲウミシダChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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