Coronaster volsellatus
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The Kanmuri sea star has tiny pincer-shaped spines scattered across its skin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Coronaster volsellatus
- Scientific name
- Coronaster volsellatus
- Japanese name
- カンムリヒトデ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Forcipulatida
- Family
- Asteriidae
- Genus
- Coronaster
A sea star that lives in the deep sea of the East China Sea and the southern Sea of Japan.
A creature called the kanmuri-hitode-suikuchimushi lives together with it inside its stomach and digestive organs.
Basic data
- Range
- The East China Sea and southern Sea of Japan
Where the Coronaster volsellatus has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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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 — カンムリヒトデChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — カンムリヒトデ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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