Species Detail - Purple Sun Star (Solaster endeca) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Solaster endeca
Purple Sun Star
NBNSYS0000178012
RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
soend
(Linnaeus, 1771)
Echinoderm
Species
17
12
9
01/02/2004
21/08/2012
1 February (recorded in 2004)
13 December (recorded in 2008)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sun Star (Solaster endeca), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/27483