🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bathybiaster loripes live?

Bathybiaster loripes has 920 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1883 to 2025. Most records come from Antarctica.

AnimaliaEchinodermataAsteroideaPaxillosidaAstropectinidaeBathybiaster

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18832025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Antarctica 549
French Southern Territories 109
Chile 78
South Georgia 46
ZZ 36
Argentina 16
South Africa 15
DR Congo 14
Bouvet Island 10
Falkland Islands 9
Canada 7
Heard & McDonald Islands 7
New Zealand 3
Australia 2
Brazil 2
Norway 1
Uruguay 1

Related animals

Others in the family Astropectinidae.

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1,050 records
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321 records
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281 records
Leptychaster flexuosus
137 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.