Solaster uchidai
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Uchida's sun star has small spines covered by thin skin on its back.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Solaster uchidai
- Scientific name
- Solaster uchidai
- Japanese name
- ウチダニチリンヒトデ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Asteroidea
- Order
- Valvatida
- Family
- Solasteridae
- Genus
- Solaster
It belongs to the nichirin sun stars, named nichirin ("sun disc") because their many arms make them look like the sun.
Compared with the nichirin sun star, the jagged edges along the sides of its arms stand out more.
How the Solaster uchidai lives
In Korean waters, it lives on rocky reefs.
국립해양생물자원관Basic data
- Range
- North Pacific
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
- 日本語
- ウチダニチリンヒトデ
- 한국어
- 우치다햇님불가사리
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 — ウチダニチリンヒトデChecked: 2026-11-04
- 국립해양생물자원관 — 우치다햇님불가사리 Solaster uchidaiChecked: 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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