Species Detail - Purple Sun Star (Solaster endeca) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland.".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Solaster endeca
Purple Sun Star
NBNSYS0000178012 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
soend
(Linnaeus, 1771)
echinoderm
Species
3
3
2
11/07/1993
12/08/1996
1 February (recorded in 2004)
13 December (recorded in 2008)
Trinity College, Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland., National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sun Star (Solaster endeca), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/258/Species/27483>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)